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What is "mental health"?

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How does the author convey stereotypical definitions of "normalcy" in relation to mental health?

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This video provides a very generic overview of what "mental health" means and what it is.

This would be used in the very beginning of this unit to provide an introduction to mental health.

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I think comparing character traits and analyzing Joel and Holden Caulfield would be an excellent way of discussing things like PTSD and the many ways we cope with grief.

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In the show House MD, House is a brilliant diagnostician who solves strange medical cases.

In this scene, House finally tries to accept his fate and change his life by seeking therapy after he is forced into a psychiatric hospital at the end of season 4 for his addiction to Vicodin.

I think it would be interesting in analyzing House's reluctance to therapy and how he seems to hold various assumptions about therapy and how it is "supposed" to go as many other people.

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How does House's reluctance of therapy display stereotypical beliefs about therapy?

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I think that using "The Last Time I Wore a Dress" by Daphne Scholinski and the TikTok about @madisonveldman's experience in a psychiatric ward would be helpful in discussing views on "normalcy".

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I think this poem by Plath, among other Confessional poets would be a helpful to look at mental health in a time period other than ours right now.

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"The Last Time I Wore a Dress" by Daphne Scholinski

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"The Last Time I Wore a Dress" by Daphne Scholinski

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"The Last Time I Wore a Dress" is a memoir by Daphne Scholinski about her experiences going through psychiatric hospitals.

The book explores PTSD, traumas, gender and sexuality, among other things.

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Sylvia Plath was a famous Confessional poet who expressed ideals, beliefs, and thoughts held by many women in her time.

Her poem "Daddy" is Plath trying to cope with the grief of her father's death, among other things.

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You do not do, you do not do

In which I have lived like a foot

For thirty years, poor and white,

Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.

Daddy, I have had to kill you.

You died before I had time--

Marble-heavy, a bag full of God,

Ghastly statue with one gray toe

And a head in the freakish Atlantic

Where it pours bean green over blue

In the waters off beautiful Nauset.

I used to pray to recover you.

In the German tongue, in the Polish town

Scraped flat by the roller

Of wars, wars, wars.

But the name of the town is common.

Says there are a dozen or two.

So I never could tell where you

Put your foot, your root,

I never could talk to you.

The tongue stuck in my jaw.

It stuck in a barb wire snare.

I could hardly speak.

I thought every German was you.

Chuffing me off like a Jew.

A Jew to Dachau, Auschwitz, Belsen.

I began to talk like a Jew.

I think I may well be a Jew.

The snows of the Tyrol, the clear beer of Vienna

Are not very pure or true.

With my gipsy ancestress and my weird luck

And my Taroc pack and my Taroc pack

I may be a bit of a Jew.

I have always been scared of you,

With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo.

And your Aryan eye, bright blue.

Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You--

So black no sky could squeak through.

Every woman adores a Fascist,

The boot in the face, the brute

Brute heart of a brute like you.

You stand at the blackboard, daddy,

In the picture I have of you,

A cleft in your chin instead of your foot

But no less a devil for that, no not

Any less the black man who

Bit my pretty red heart in two.

I was ten when they buried you.

And get back, back, back to you.

I thought even the bones would do.

But they pulled me out of the sack,

And they stuck me together with glue.

And then I knew what to do.

A man in black with a Meinkampf look

And a love of the rack and the screw.

And I said I do, I do.

So daddy, I'm finally through.

The black telephone's off at the root,

The voices just can't worm through.

If I've killed one man, I've killed two--

The vampire who said he was you

And drank my blood for a year,

Seven years, if you want to know.

Daddy, you can lie back now.

There's a stake in your fat black heart

And the villagers never liked you.

They are dancing and stamping on you.

They always knew it was you.

Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I'm through.

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Daddy by Sylvia Plath | Poetry Foundation

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This is the second part of a lesson on these two Kendrick Lamar songs "u" and "i" by Kendrick Lamar off of his album "To Pimp A Butterfly".

"i" represents a polar opposite of "u" by way of showing confidence in oneself and loving oneself.

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This is a song off of "To Pimp A Butterfly" by Kendrick Lamar that depicts Kendrick at his lowest point mentally on the album.

Should be accompanied with the song 'i" which (in the context of the album) is supposed to serve as a journey/transition from the low points of "u" to the high point of "I".

This video contains graphic content, so I think I would only use the first part of this video (where nothing graphic happens).

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"u":

I would want students to focus on the  musicality (beat, lyrics, music video, tone/mood, etc.) and discuss how different elements express an emotion or idea.

"i":

I would want students to compare and contrast the musicality of "I" to "u" (beat, lyrics, music video, tone/mood, etc.)

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A Beautiful Mind is a movie and real life story about a brilliant mathematician struggling with Schizophrenia.

This is a very powerful movie and would help students understand more aspects of mental health.

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A fictional book by J.D. Salinger about an angsty boy named Holden Caulfield. I think that Holden's attitudes and views towards life might be applicable to many students and they might find him relatable.

I think this book would go well with a character analysis of Joel from The Last of Us.

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The Last of Us is a post-apocalyptic action adventure game for the Playstation 4.

In the very first scene of the game, the main protagonist's (Joel) daughter is killed. The majority of the game finds Joel coping with this grief while escorting a young girl (Ellie) to the Fireflies (a local militia group) to develop a cure for the virus that infected the world twenty plus years ago.

It would be interesting to either play through the game (about 13-15 hours depending on play style), or watching essential scenes to the game's story on YouTube.

I think discussing how Joel is affected by the loss of his daughter (PTSD) and how Joel deals with grief would be one possible focus.

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TikTok user @madisonveldman makes a humorous TikTok about her experiences in a psychiatric ward.

I think this would help students see mental health normalized by someone close to their age.

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