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Globe Academy GSL project: Raising awareness for mental health

By the Globe GSL team

21/09/2017 Raise awarness for mental health, We are are GSL.

Why mental health?

• Mental health is a powerful topic, affecting many families across the

UK and the world.

• As a society, we are extremely passionate in this topic and believe

that, raising awareness for mental health is important for society as a whole.

• We believe that, there is a stigma on mental health and many people

believe that it is okay to call them derogatory terms.

• Together, the Globe Academy GSL team believe that this is wrong.

21/09/2017 Raise awareness for mental health, We are GSL.

21/09/2017 Raise awareness for mental health, We are GSL.

What is mental health?

• Mental health is a person’s condition with regard to their

psychological and emotional well-being.

• The term itself does not directly mean that, you have a condition

instead it involves having a good or bad mental health.

• 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each

year.

• The overall number of people with mental health problems has not

changed significantly in recent years, but worries about things like money, jobs and benefits can make it harder for people to cope.

21/09/2017 Raise awareness for mental health, We are GSL.

Mental health facts

• Here are some facts about mental health:
• Around 20% of the world's children and teenagers have mental

disorders or problems.

• Over 800 000 people die due to suicide every year and suicide is the

second leading cause of death in 15-29-year-olds.

• Stigma surrounding mental illness is widespread
• Despite the existence of effective treatments for mental disorders,

there is a belief that they are untreatable or that people with mental disorders are difficult, not intelligent, or incapable of making decisions.

21/09/2017 Raise awareness for mental health, We are GSL.

Mental health among teenagers

• The most occurring mental health issues among teenagers include:

Autism, ADHD, anxiety, depression, social phobia, obsessive compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder.

• Overall, young people's lives are improving. Drinking, smoking and

drug-taking are down in the UK; teen pregnancies are at their lowest level for nearly half a century.

• However, the rates of depression and anxiety among teenagers have

increased by 70 per cent in the past 25 years.

• As students ourselves, we want to raise awareness for this.

21/09/2017 Raise awareness for mental health, We are GSL.

How to raise awareness for mental health

• Over the time of deciding how to raise mental health, we had many

different ideas on how to do this, which resulted in multiple disagreements.

• In the end we found that making a video would be most effective,

instead of raising money.

• This decision came as, we thought this would be an impact which we

could directly make ourselves, instead of just giving a charity money.

• To show our great effort here is our video made to raise awareness.

21/09/2017 Raise awareness for mental health, We are GSL.

Measuring success

• In order measure our impact, we will measure views and likes on

video.

• This video is posted on each of our Facebook, with a hope of

reposting as well as, Instagram and YouTube.

• We will also be able to take feedback and be able to communicate

with those, who enjoyed it or found it helpful by reading comments and also replying to them.

• In addition, we will also have a hope that, our success could lead to

more videos or other projects following social issues.

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21/09/2017 Raise awareness for mental health, We are GSL.

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Raising awareness for mental health, We are GSL

21/09/2017 Raise awareness for mental health, We are GSL.