Depression and Suicide Prevention Month Recommendations 2022
Don’t suffer from your depression in silence by Nikki Webber Allen
Depression can be draining. Around the world, mental illness remains largely stigmatised, preventing people from seeking help and talking about what they are experiencing. People living with depression can feel emotionally unavailable.
Speaking Up about Suicide by Carmen García
This video is intended to shine a light on the reality of suicide for people to better detect and prevent suicide completions.
Managing Stress, Anxiety, and Depression with
Meditation Teacher Dora by Headspace
It can be difficult to know if you’re feeling stressed, anxious, or depressed as you go through your daily routine. Feeling a lack of control over a situation can lead to stress, anxiety and even depression. In this situation, stress no longer serves its initial biological function of alerting us.
What is Suicidal Ideation by Psych Hub
Suicidal ideation is when you think about killing yourself. Some people with suicidal ideation can, for example use more alcohol or drugs, act aggressively, retreat from family and friends, have severe mood swings or behave recklessly.
Most people experience sadness, the blues, or temporary depression at some point in their lives due to circumstances or changes. A depressive episode, however, is when you experience those same feelings with no apparent reason. We’ve rounded up recommendations of original series that depict mental illness and mental health accurately.
Headspace: Unwind Your Mind (A)
Headspace Unwind Your Mind lets you choose your own mindfulness adventure based on your mood – from stress-relieving meditations to relaxing wind-downs and bedtime stories, it’s customisable to you. Learn a mindful approach, by exploring guided exercises, videos and more to help you.
Check it out on Netflix now.
This Is Us (13)
NBC’s hit drama This Is Us is one of the few series to sensitively explore men’s mental health struggles, presenting a welcome vision of masculine fragility at a time teeming with real-life male villains. While many critically lauded programs depict men engaing in bad behaviour due to psychological or medical ordeals,
This Is Us is one of the few series that intentionally centres men’s mental health struggles.
The Mind - Explained (13)
The brain has not always been esteemed as the locus of that highly complex and contradictory entity, the human mind. In ancient Egypt, the soul and all mental functioning were thought to be in the heart, although some scholars assigned
this role to the liver. Hippocrates, in fourth century (B.C.) Greece, identified the brain as “the interpreter of consciousness”.
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