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The Mental Health flag represents the support for all efforts in mental health. The Pete Foundation introduced the flag in March of 2020, along with the widespread collaboration of mental health professionals and advocates from other backgrounds. They hope that this banner will serve as the worldwide flag for people who identify with mental health awareness.

Green is already the established Color of Mental Health Awareness, and for that reason is the base of the flag. The design of the flag reflects a sunrise and the shift from dark to light through brighter shades of color. These shades also represent the various states of our emotional or psychological life. The value of the simple design is to make it more relatable, replicable, and transcultural.

The goal of the Mental Healthcare Community is to be a facilitator or catalyst for people working their way through life's obstacles and into a brighter, more well adjusted psychological future. Humans are a very interdependent species. We are hardwired to connect and cooperate with others on a multitude of levels. We benefit from the stimulation, nurturance, and general community of others. This reality makes it even more vital that we prioritize the psychological understanding of our selves. Once we better understand our own emotional life and experience the fulfillment that can bring, we consequently are better able to communicate, empathize and constructively relate with others. It is through this universal respect for each other's well-being that we can collectively create a healthier, more well-adjusted, productive society.