How to Use mental health day in a Sentence

mental health day

noun
  • Taking a mental health day to binge watch Game of Thrones is nice.
    Suzannah Weiss, Glamour, 30 Apr. 2019
  • Oregon has passed a bill that allows five mental health days a year.
    James Call, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
  • Should students get mental health days off from school?
    New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
  • For more tips on how to take a mental health day that actually helps, read this.
    Hannah Dylan Pasternak, SELF, 5 Oct. 2021
  • That caused me to have a ton of anxiety, and so sometimes, throughout high school, my parents would let me a day off -- a mental health day.
    David Williams, CNN, 22 July 2019
  • The group helped sponsor a community mental health day this month.
    Kala Kachmar, The Courier-Journal, 12 Mar. 2022
  • Utah’s students, the Legislature approved a bill that would allow school kids to take a mental health day off.
    Taylor Stevens, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Mar. 2021
  • That’s why my company, for instance, now offers a mental health day, as well as one three-day weekend per month.
    Raj Verma, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2022
  • But Sophie took to Twitter yesterday to retweet a story about teen activists helping to get a law passed to help students get mental health days.
    Katherine J. Igoe, Marie Claire, 25 July 2019
  • And truth be told, mental health days also require strategy.
    Anna Borges, SELF, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Over the course of 30 days, the healthiest Ohio counties had three poor physical health days on average and 3.3 poor mental health days on average.
    Sarah Brookbank, Cincinnati.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Under that second proposal, needing a mental health day would be added as as valid reason for a student to be out sick and excused from missing school.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Jan. 2021
  • Skip to main content Public school students would be allowed to cite the need for a mental health day as an excuse to miss school, under a bill filed in the Florida Legislature for the 2020 session.
    James Call, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2019
  • The other bill directly involving schools would make mental health days excused absences.
    Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 31 Oct. 2019
  • Sprokkreeff offered a company-wide mental health day at Webprofits this year, to much enthusiasm.
    Kristine Gill, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Radical self-care will look different for different people — not everyone is able to take a mental health day from work or visit a therapist, for instance.
    Elizabeth Gulino, refinery29.com, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Perhaps unsurprisingly, Toole has found movement to be one of the most effective maneuvers for getting through a difficult mental health day.
    Michelle Konstantinovsky, SELF, 27 May 2021
  • States and school districts around the United States are approving legislation to allow students to take mental health days as young people struggle with anxiety and depression.
    Caitlin Yilek, Washington Examiner, 1 Feb. 2020
  • Reasons for the improvements by Broward and Miami-Dade aren’t spelled out in the report, which assigns rankings in 34 health categories, ranging from the average number of poor mental health days reported by residents to adult smoking rates.
    Ron Hurtibise, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Mar. 2018
  • Kathryn VanderBroek, the district’s general counsel, said taking a mental health day does not mean a student must be diagnosed with a disorder like depression or anxiety.
    Steve Sadin, chicagotribune.com, 24 Nov. 2021
  • Historically, supporting mental health at work has looked like more therapy, more meditation, more mindfulness, or the ever futile mental health day.
    Mind Share Partners, Forbes, 18 Oct. 2021
  • Reflektive, a software management company, began a monthly company-wide mental health day, said Rachel Ernst, chief human resources officer.
    Kristine Gill, Fortune, 28 Aug. 2020
  • There will also be a mental health day program, suicide prevention, in-home intensive case management, couples and family therapy, telehealth programs, peer support and homeless programs, among others.
    William Thornton | Wthornton@al.com, al, 14 May 2020
  • Despite little public opposition from lawmakers, Hardcastle said she's received pushback from some parents who say the legislation wasn't necessary, as students can already take mental health days by lying or pretending to be sick.
    NBC News, 21 July 2019
  • Hyland Software is another local company with policies that unofficially support mental health wellness and mental health days.
    Susan Glaser, cleveland.com, 16 June 2019

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