Letizia 'raps' to ask for more investment in mental health

Letizia takes supporting the different causes she champions very seriously and this Tuesday, in Madrid, she used the verses of a song by rapper El Chojín to achieve her goal and make her presence visible at the institutional event for World Health Day.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
09 October 2023 Monday 16:26
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Letizia 'raps' to ask for more investment in mental health

Letizia takes supporting the different causes she champions very seriously and this Tuesday, in Madrid, she used the verses of a song by rapper El Chojín to achieve her goal and make her presence visible at the institutional event for World Health Day. Mental, aware and has said so that the title of "The Queen raps for mental health", would draw attention to its message: achieving greater investment.

At the beginning of her words, Letizia recited the following phrases: “I do what I can, I reach what I reach and it is not healthy for me to demand so much of myself; Anger and bad faces hurt when I fail at something, but it hurts more when they don't appreciate that you've tried and I'm trying, sorry if I can't do it, but why did they think I would do it well all the time? And, he plays a song by rapper El Chojín to get his , before giving way to the testimony of the artists, as well as those of Ángel Martín, Edurne Pasaban and other people who have spoken about their own experiences.

The Queen has followed her words by asking for greater investment in mental health and for them she has addressed the levels from where care can be improved for those affected and also provide the necessary help to the professionals who treat them. Some need "tools to face life," she said, and the others "an increase in resources to guarantee a more "prosperous and equitable future for all people."

To attend the event, the Queen rescued one of her favorite dresses from her closet. From the French brand Sandro, it is a mid-season model in green, black and white tones with a crossover body and a pleated midi skirt.

This year, the institutional event for World Mental Health Day, organized by the Spanish Mental Health Confederation in collaboration with the ONCE Foundation and the Ministry of Social Rights and Agenda 2030, was held in a hotel in Madrid with the motto “ Mental health, global health: a universal right.

In her speech at the beginning of the forum, the Queen expressed the need for institutions and society to listen to those who suffer from mental health problems to "know where action should go" so that "the rights of people are not further violated." people with mental pathologies. Without mental health, the Queen has stressed, “there is no hope and any intention for life to be full is extinguished.”

The queen was accompanied by the acting Minister of Health, José Miñones, and the president of the Mental Health Confederation, Nel González Zapico.