Department of psychological and mental health nursing at University of Baghdad participated in celebration of world mental health day held at Baghdad Medical City. This event was attended by Teacher Dr. Qahtan Qassim Mohammed and a number of postgraduate students and it included many lectures that provided research papers and a statistical overview on depression and anxiety disorder in Arab countries such as Iraq. It is worth mentioning that this celebration was sponsored by Minister of health and environment Dr. Adela Hammoud in collaboration with World Health Organization under the slogan “Depression, let’s talk”.