Mental Health: A Recap

When I think of mental health, I think of a cool, piercing green because it represents the idea of having layers of meaning, in the mind, and how your mental health influences your emotions and actions.

A symbol for mental health would be a puzzle piece because it represents a part of you, a link in your mind. If you're missing one of those pieces, then you're missing one of those links, and that your mental health isn't complete.

This image represents mental health because it shows how the mind is constantly split into different pathways, the down and the upsides of our emotions which are part of our day to day life.
 

I used to think mental health was just about having depression and another mind-related diseases. I thought people who had a low mental health were crazy or really sad and that they weren’t very common.

Now I think mental health is bigger than just that, that everyone experiences the lows and highs of mental health and that having a low mental health is not always easy to tell. 

How did we change our thinking? 

We read a picture book about depression and talked about it, which made me more aware of the issue. We watched a movie which showed a girl who had a very unstable mental health, and we saw how friends and family can help us overcome this. We wrote up blogs discussing different topics within mental health. We observed how other people react based on issues surrounding them which shows how much their environment affects their mental health. We talked about resilience and what we do to bounce back, which made me realise that there are many different ways people can be resilient and that there is no particular way you have to do this.