mental health day
noun
: a day that an employee takes off from work in order to relieve stress or renew vitality
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Or take a mental health day from work when everyone is out of the house and take a luxurious daytime nap, read a fiction book, get an at-home massage, or park it on the couch with streaming services and full control of the remote.
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Allison Hope, CNN, 15 Feb. 2022
A few days before UConn women’s basketball’s game against No. 1 South Carolina, the coaching staff decided to give players a mental health day.
—Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2023
In the past few years, some parents have received a new item to put into their child-rearing tool kits: the school mental health day.
—Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
How about adding a quarterly mental health day on top of PTO?
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
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Allison Hope, CNN, 15 Feb. 2022
A few days before UConn women’s basketball’s game against No. 1 South Carolina, the coaching staff decided to give players a mental health day.
—Lila Bromberg, Hartford Courant, 10 Feb. 2023
In the past few years, some parents have received a new item to put into their child-rearing tool kits: the school mental health day.
—Elizabeth Chang, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2022
How about adding a quarterly mental health day on top of PTO?
—Expert Panel®, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
See All Example Sentences for mental health day
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“Mental health day.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mental%20health%20day. Accessed 22 Jul. 2025.
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