Mental health is vital to every single persons overall well being, and a lot of the time it’s over shadowed by things that are insignificant in the long run. It’s been shown time and time again that mental health can impact an individual a lot worse than physically. Everyone knows someone or has a family member or friend who has been affected by a neglected mental health. Schools and work environments, especially, continue to prolong the stigma against mental health. If mental health was a more serious topic, the statistics concerning poor mental health such as suicide would drop drastically. By signing this petition, you could help fix the problematic mindset of ignoring your own life problems just to go to work or school. Productiveness is more efficient when done in a healthy state of mind. Just imagine the impact for mental health days being as significant as holidays. Furthermore, being able to be excused for mental health days could be a stop to the unnecessary crime that we hear about daily. The only way to change this would be for us to come together as a society to be the change we want to see. People of all ages, from children to adults, are all victims of having to ignore how we feel internally and step out into the world in a mask, only making what we do on a daily basis more difficult and even dreadful. We should be motivated to treat our own selves with the same care as our work and school performance.