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My art highlights the impact of Social Media on our minds. It forces us to view ourself a certain way and we keep reinforcing that negative image. The negative impact of Social Media causes us to slowly disappear in the perception of online image and lose yourselves.

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Many artists have challenged their mental illness into music. Artists in all genres express their views in creative ways.
Example: Billie Ellish (pop), Baretooth (rock), Bowling for Fun (funk), Clinic

The song above shares the mental health struggles of the singer and the limiting services. Music helps better understand the emotions that people feel.

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Muncie Girls - Clinic (Official Music Video)

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This movement revolves around expression. From the start, people have been trying to express their feelings in creative ways such as paintings and books. Such expressions helps us understand the urgent need to address this important issue in a safe manner. The demographic of this movement has evolved to target the younger generation, making its goals even more vital.

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#HereForYou is a mental health campaign on Instagram. They post one-minute videos and cover the stories of three different users, discussing their problems with eating disorders, suicidal thoughts, and depression. Other people can also share their experiences by tagging their stories. Currently, 175k posts are part of this community. They have created a safe, online community to seek and offer help.

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Need to talk to someone? Specialists are available for confidential telephone counseling and longer-term help.

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The rise of Social Media has played a key role in shaping the mental health of people, especially teens. Increased use of Social Media has been linked to several mental health illnesses, relating to depression, anxiety, eating disorders, and more. At the same time, social media also serves as a outlet for many people and allows them to express their feelings in creative ways.

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People from all walks of life are advocating to normalize mental health conversation in different settings. Some popular Campaigns include: #Saysomething, It's Up to Us, Know the Signs, and many more.

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Each Mind Matters unites the hundreds of organizations working together to create health systems that serve minds and bodies, and the millions of Californians who refuse to stay silent while untreated mental illness takes an unnecessary toll on our families and communities. Together, we are creating a California where Each Mind Matters. Each Mind Matters is for everyone because mental health is for everyone. This movement belongs to all of us.

Mental Health Matters is an awareness campaign with the following goals:

1. To reduce stigma regarding mental health

2. To normalize help seeking and self-care

3. To demonstrate that even your role models and mentors need to manage their emotional health, and value doing so as a key to their success

Website: https://studenthealth.ucsf.edu/MentalHealthAwareness2014
Campus: UC San Francisco

Know the Signs is a statewide suicide prevention social marketing campaign built on three key messages: Know the signs. Find the words. Reach out. This campaign is intended to educate Californians how to recognize the warning signs of suicide, how to find the words to have a direct conversation with someone in crisis and where to find professional help and resources.

Website: http://www.suicideispreventable.org/
Campus: Santa Cruz, UC Riverside
Resources: Know the Signs - Poster (pdf)

The It's Up to Us campaign is designed to empower individuals in California counties to talk openly about mental illness, recognize symptoms, utilize local resources and seek help. This campaign was developed through the County of San Diego Health and Human Services Agency, and funded by the County of San Diego Mental Health Services Act. Recovery is possible and help is available. It's Up to Us!

Websites: http://www.up2sd.org/ & http://www.up2riverside.org/
Campuses: UC San Diego, UC Riverside
Resources: It's Up to Us - Poster (pdf)

The #SaySomething campaign was developed by UC Santa Barbara and supports an ongoing effort in the County of Santa Barbara to educate the community and encourage an open conversation about mental health and suicide prevention. Santa Barbara City College, The Hosford Clinic, the Glendon Association, PsychAlive, Santa Barbara Response Network and the Santa Barbara Mental Wellness Center all participate in this campaign.

Websites: https://twitter.com/UCSBGauchotalk
Campuses: UC Santa Barbara

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Each Mind Matters unites the hundreds of organizations working together to create health systems that serve minds and bodies, and the millions of Californians who refuse to stay silent while untreated mental illness takes an unnecessary toll on our families and communities. Together, we are creating a California where Each Mind Matters.

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The mental health movement really kicked off in the early 1900s, after multiple people with mental illnesses spoke out against their mistreatment in care facilities. Its initial goals revolved around providing safe care services to all and ending the inhumane treatment of the mentally ill. Over the years, the goals of this movement have expanded. People have been fighting to include mental health as part of healthcare and provide resources in all settings, such as school and workspaces.

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Currently, people of all ages, including students, are advocating for improved care services. The COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated this ongoing issue, and more and more people are expressing their views through protests and social media. This movement is a broad umbrella that is composed of several sub-movements such as suicide, substance use, abuse prevention, and more.

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1. Improve the public view of mental health and combat stigma
2. Reduce unjust imprisonment of people with mental illness
3. Improving rehabilitation and care services from government

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Vincent van Gogh – Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889)

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Vincent van Gogh – Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889)

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A lot of the work in the romantic era attempted to explore the mind. We can start to see people look at mind in a different way, and differentiate different states of mind.

According to the Guardian:
"Vincent’s eyes are crystal blue, his gaze acute and penetrating. He looks at his wounded face objectively, with deep truth. He is neither “sane” nor “insane” but a fellow human being who speaks to us with courage and honesty.

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This art showcases the everyday mental health-related challenges people may face, which are particularly worsened by social media. The artist says: ‘I drew this after I realized that I was experiencing episodes of depersonalization. I had been experiencing them for a while, but never knew what it was...It feels like you’re detached from yourself. The head could eventually be reattached, and I could finally feel like myself again.’

Photograph: Morgan Page/the Perspective Project

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1908: A Mind That Found Itself - Cliford Beers

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1908: A Mind That Found Itself - Cliford Beers

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Clifford Beers shared his challenging experience in mental health care facility and their inhumane treatment. His work presented experiences that many were unaware of at that time. It challenged many institutions to review their protocols and care services and sparked the mental health movement.

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In the preamble to the WHO Constitutions, it was stated that “health is a state of complete physical, mental and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity” 14, a now widely quoted definition.

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Each year, we commemorate World Tuberculosis (TB) Day on March 24 to raise public awareness about the devastating health, social and economic consequences of TB, and to step up efforts to end the global TB epidemic. The date marks the day in 1882 when Dr Robert Koch announced that he had discovered…

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1950: “mental health” and “mental hygiene” were defined as follows 3: “Mental hygiene refers to all the activities and techniques which encourage and maintain mental health. Mental health is a condition, subject to fluctuations due to biological and social factors, which enables the individual to achieve a satisfactory synthesis of his own potentially conflicting, instinctive drives; to form and maintain harmonious relations with others; and to participate in
constructive changes in his social and physical environment.”

(https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2408392/)

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The roots of the concept of mental health

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This paper reviews the origins of the current concept of mental health, starting from the mental hygiene movement, initiated in 1908 by consumers of psychiatric services and professionals interested in improving the conditions and the quality of treatment ...

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The hidden epidemic of today