Ahead of World Mental Health Day, WHO released a deinstitutionalization guide calling for countries to move from long-term psychiatric hospitals and social-care institutions toward rights, choice and life in the community. It asks hospital leaders to reduce admissions and long stays, change practices that restrict rights, and help people hospitalized for six months or more return with housing, health care, social protection, education, employment and family support. WHO's Mental Health Atlas finds that only 9% of reporting countries have fully shifted to community care, 53% remain in an early reform stage and 28% of psychiatric inpatients stay longer than six months. Reform needs cross-sector investment, not bed closures alone.