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We Matter - A Campaign to Build Stronger Indigenous Youth

12/6/2016

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In November, brother and sister duo Kelvin and Tunchai Redvers began an online campaign designed to share messages of hope and resiliency to Indigenous youth across Canada. Having experienced and been witness to hopelessness, suicide, addiction, bullying, abuse, and addiction themselves in their home community in the Northwest Territories, the pair felt it was important to remind youth that they are not alone, that their lives matter, and that they are surrounded by love, hope, and support in their communities and beyond.

Their project, We Matter, allows individuals from across the country to share video messages, artwork, and poems to Indigenous youth, which offer words of encouragement and positivity, stories of lived experience, and messages of resiliency and strength. More than that, the project aims to build stronger communities and help youth break silence, find help, and speak out about the hardships they face. 

"At 15, Redvers almost became a statistic herself, ingesting a toxic amount of pills before phoning her mom.

“Me taking the pills was hitting rock bottom and was my cry for help,” says Tunchai. “I began to learn the importance of breaking the silence and reaching out for help.”

Now 22, Redvers is hoping a national non-profit she founded with her brother, Kelvin Redvers, will help other aboriginal youth do the same.

The pair launched We Matter last month, a website with video messages of hope from First Nation youth and leaders, as well as heartbreaking stories from community members who tried to take their own life, or thought about it."


Check out the We Matter campaign and help forward these messages to those in need by visiting and sharing the sites below:
https://wemattercampaign.org
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https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2016/12/03/two-northern-siblings-who-made-hope-go-viral.html

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Using Art To Advocate For Mental Health In Black Communities

8/8/2016

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Having experienced depression and anxiety firsthand, and living in a community in South Africa called Lebowakgomo, where mental illness is rarely discussed and more often ignored or misdiagnosed, photographer Tsuko Maela used his craft to help others suffering from mental health conditions. 

His series, "Abstract Peaces", acts like a visual diary, chronicling "a person who was trying to breath during a very difficult time, trying to find themselves, trying to make sense of their struggle. And what they found was peace." Through his art, Maela hopes to help advocate for mental health, especially among the black communities in both South Africa and around the world. The biggest message Maela works depict is that there is no shame in mental illness, rather there is an opportunity to break the silence by sharing stories of experience, recovery, and hope.

""Growing up in a black community you quickly learn that there is a list of problems that do not ‘affect’ black people:
Mentally ill? Bewitched, or you simply study too hard.

Depressed? Lighten up, you’ve been watching way too many of those white teen movies.

Seeing a psychologist? You’re weak and should probably stop that before the neighbours find out.""


To check out this story and Maela's works of art click here:
http://10and5.com/…/using-photography-to-destigmatise-ment…/
http://abstractpeaces.tumblr.com

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Psych In The News - Week 84

11/29/2015

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Catch up on all the news related to mental health and psychiatry from last week!


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Psych In The News - Week 76

9/13/2015

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The Cultural Differences in Hallucinations

6/9/2015

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Schizophrenia affects individuals around the world. Though it is not something unique to developed nations like our own, researchers are starting to discover that the experience of schizophrenia symptoms can vary widely between different countries. In the brief study summary "Hallucinated voices’ attitudes vary with culture", we learn that the context of auditory hallucinations, such as whether they are positive or negative, can vary greatly between the East and West, and this may perhaps be due to difference in cultural beliefs about the mind and mental health.


"In the United States, schizophrenia’s symptoms include hallucinations of disembodied voices that hurl insults and make violent commands, says an international team led by Stanford University anthropologist Tanya Luhrmann. But in India and Ghana, schizophrenia patients often report positive relationships with hallucinated voices that they recognize as those of family members or God."


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Global Mental Health

9/29/2014

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Each Monday we will be learning and thinking about Global Mental Health. To get us started off, let's take a broad look at this topic.  

Almost 15% of the world's disease burden is attributed to mental disorders, and almost three quarters of this burden is in low and middle-income countries. Yet almost 90% of people needing access to care in these countries do not receive it. Vikram Patel is the co-director of the Centre for Global Mental Health. In this TED Talk, he speaks about the impact of this disease burden and increasing access to mental health services in developing countries. 

http://www.ted.com/talks/vikram_patel_mental_health_for_all_by_involving_all
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Psych In The News - Week 30

9/21/2014

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Catch up on all the news related to psychiatry and mental health from last week!


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Psych In The News - Week 19

5/17/2014

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Catch up on all the news related to psychiatry and mental health from this week!


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Good Reads: Cultural Issues in Psychiatry

5/8/2014

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At the 2014 PsychSIGN annual conference held in New York City last weekend, psychiatrist Dr. Francis Lu spoke to interested medical students on cultural issues in psychiatry.  Specifically, Dr. Lu spoke to the importance of cultural competence both in medicine in general, but also specifically within the field of psychiatry as a patient's culture, religion, or spiritual beliefs may impact the ways in which we interpret, diagnose and treat their mental health issues.

During his talk, Dr. Lu also provided students with a number of resources to which they could refer to learn more about culture competency in psychiatry, and help develop a better understanding of how one's culture, background and beliefs can affect treatment decisions, as well as one's approach to interviews, assessments and therapies.  One of the "essential" texts that was recommended was Ethnicity & Family Therapy.

Read on to find out to find out more about this text, as well as a few others!




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Psych In The News: Week 17

5/3/2014

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