Spain’s ‘Crying Room’ seeks to banish mental health taboo

Anyone can drop in at the project, housed in a building in central Madrid, which aims to remove the stigma in society attached to mental health, crying and seeking help. "It is not a taboo, it is a public health problem that we must talk about, make visible and act accordingly," he said about mental illness as he launched the plan on Oct. 10, World Mental Health Day. In 2019, 3,671 people died from suicide in Spain, the second most common cause of death after natural causes.

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