Los medanos college m4 mh online - 4.21.21 - presentation (2)

#Poetry4MentalHealth
#Movies4MentalHealth
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About Your Facilitator
Carly D. Weckstein, she/her
• Theatre Director
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All In Equity Fridays
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Los Medanos College
Equity and Inclusion Office
○ Campus workshops
○ Monthly short ﬁlm competition
○ Short ﬁlm production grants
○ Global community

HERE’S THE PLAN
● Setting the scene together
● Watch and discuss ﬁlms, connect our minds
and bodies
● Panel of students and resources
● Evaluation (and a a drawing for one of two
$50 gift cards to the LMC bookstore, one of
two $25 gift cards for the LMC bookstore, or
LMC swag!)
● Virtual Mingle / Q&A

Mental health is personal – YOU are the expert
on your own experience
We are online - this is a public, shared space
We are recording this session for internal
training and evaluation purposes
Please take care of yourself however you need,
including asking for help
HEADS UP

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IN JUST A FEW WORDS...
What has self-care been
looking like for you these days?
● Lots and lots of walking
● Going on walks with music playing :)
● Writing my feelings!
● Nature outings
● Balance work stress with self care
● Eating healthy, spending some time alone
● Exercise
● Make progression my ideas
● Though diffusion
● Creative video games
● Listening to music

MENTAL HEALTH

Mental illness
Mental wellness
MENTAL HEALTH

Some movies and TV
shows that show
mental illness…
● Loudermilk is about a recovery group
● What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
● One Day at A Time netﬂix original was pretty good :)
● A lot of people disliked 13 Reasons Whyy
● Atypical on Netﬂix
● Girl Interrupted
● She-Ra showed different emotions!
● Inside Out
● Lilo and Stitch’s handling of coping from loss was a
big impact on me
● Jacob’s Ladder (19988) Vietnam vet experiences
hallucinations and suffers from PTSD
● FX Network’s The Breeders, the parents of their child
are a bit hesitant in getting a diagnosis buut they
eventually did

Characters with
mental illness are
portrayed as…
● Usually emotional or unstable
● Anti-social
● Overwhelmed
● Lost
● Reactive
● Shamed
● Dangerous
● Burden
● Awkward
● I like how they portrayed mental illness as something
normal in the Hispanic community in One Day At a
Time, like Elena had panic attacks and she found out
her mom had them too

MH ACROSS CULTURES
How have you experienced the concept of "mental
health" within your own cultural communities?
● Just get over it
● You’re ﬁne
● Hiding it, it doesn’t exist is what they told me
● It’s not that big of a deal
● Man up
● The person is at fault
● In Latino culture, you are depicted as weak or crazy
● I agree with the “man up”, I’m Mexican and growing up
I never saw my dad cry because it wasn’t manly
● It feels selﬁsh to be concerned or bring up your own
mental health
● People don’t know how to handle someone when
they’re having a panic attack or something

WHAT IS STIGMA?
A judgment or stereotype that is:
○ Always negative
○ Always untrue
○ Can be internalized

Mind Matters
By Josef Adamu
AWI Winner, November 2019
CONTENT HEADS UP
depression, stigma, alcohol use

HOW ARE YOU FEELING AFTER
WATCHING THIS FILM?
A Hopeful
C
B
D
E
Sad
Angry or
Frustrated
Overwhelmed
Worried or
Anxious

How does stigma feel?
● Unpleasant, hurtful
● It feels like a lot of pressure
● Exhausting
● Shameful
● Isolating
● Dismissive
● Women are portrayed as emotional
beings so you never wanna talk about
your feelings
● Disappointing
● Frustrating
● I agree with all the answers

What makes it difficult
to reach out for help?
● Embarrassment
● You don’t want to be a burden
● You need to pray harder, you don’t have enough faith
● You feel like you can overcome itand don’t want to bother others
● Don’t know where to go to get help
● People don’t understand
● I was shamed for asking for help so it’s difficult to ask again when I feel
down
● Someone’s experience might convince them they can’t trust anybody
● Blamed
● Some resources are too expensive
● Self hate
● Or having a lot of siblings you don’t want to feel like the troubled one
● Long wait to see a mental health therapist
● I saw help for a long time, then realized after leaving that help source
that I didn’t grow the tools I needed. That was discouraging.
● Hard to ﬁnd someone with shared experiences to relate to
● Or you do feel like the troubled one and don’t want to cause more worry
for others

BREATHING
EXERCISE

HOW WAS THIS BREATHING
EXERCISE FOR YOU?
A Relaxing
C
B
D
E
Invigorating
or refreshing
Meh
Stressful or
uncomfortable
New

Masc
By Amilcar Javier
Voices With Impact 2020
CONTENT HEADS UP
toxic masculinity; depictions of bullying, alcohol use, intimate partner
violence; intergenerational trauma

What did you think?
How did you feel?
● The [scene with the son in the mask standing
behind the father] stood out to me too
● Anger, I have a little brother and it’s so true
about machismo
● Impact of generational trauma
● Sos many people do not see the roots of
violence that lie within family symptoms
● It reminds me of the bad things people go
through. You never know what someone is
going through.
● The last time I saw spoken word in a ﬁlm was
Blindspotting (2018)

What are some practices
that help support
your wellness?
● Talking to my friends who have gone through the same things as I
did so I can hear their thoughts
● That support network is so important and growing our own tools.
Not every tool is going to work everytime, it’s important to be open
and try different things.
● I get a lot of anxiety, so brainstorming with my mom can help me
see things more clearly.
● If I’m feeling a strong negative emotion, I try to “sit with it” and ask
questions about it, while trying to remain objective
● Yes talking. Or listening to stories, someone else talking to me. It
helps because I don’t like going into detail about what I’m going
through.
● Rewarding myself with simple treats such as styling my hair,
massaging my hands, eating my favorite dessert.
● So many great tools, everyone, thank you for sharing these gifts

BODY
SCAN

HOW WAS THE BODY
SCAN FOR YOU?
A Relaxing
C
B
D
E
Invigorating
or refreshing
Meh
Stressful or
uncomfortable
New

Still Here
By Britney Dennison
AWI Winner, October 2017
Content heads up:
discussion of self-harm, depression, suicidal ideation, homophobic
bullying; brief mention of sexual assault; imagery of razor blades

WHERE DID YOU EXPERIENCE
THIS IN YOUR BODY?
A Head
C
B
D
E
Shoulders
Somewhere
else
I didn’t feel it in
my body
Belly

What did you think?
How did you feel?
● I felt it in my chest. I always feels emotions in my chest.
● This hit home, I used to cut and was very depressed bc I was
confused by my sexuality and growing up in the church I was
taught being part of lgbtq+ was wrong so I felt like I deserved
to feel pain
● It hit me hard in my chest as I knew someone very close to me
who used to cut and it was very sad and upsetting
● Hearing about this project made me feel hopeful. The art was
very powerful, and his message “It felt like something I had to
do” felt so powerful
● Reminded me of people in my life that have experienced
similar pain. The razor blade piece was powerful.
● It made me think of people who might have self-harmed
before. The times I cut. And the repetitive thoughts I have
about self-harm.

How can we support
ourselves and others?
● By talking to people you’re close with. I have a
cousin who shuts herself out when going through
something, so I left her know I’m here no matter
what.
● Try to ﬁnd the balance of over and under reacting
● For helping others, I think something important is
seek to understand others
● Holding space and listening to people
● Normalize asking for help or pursuing treatment
● Yup checking in with others. I have helped several
people that I consider close to me, friends I should
say, through the tough periods in their life. And
vice versa.
● Listening with no judgement or need to solve the
other person’s problems.
● This has all been great advice

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MEET THE PANEL
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Angelee Bergentino (she/her)
LMCAS Commissioner of Outreach, President of Active Minds Club
Nina Ghiselli, Psy.D. (she/her)
DSPS/General Counselor, Los Medanos College
Camille Santana (she/her/siya)
Counseling Faculty, Los Medanos College
Aaron Almanza (he/him)
Executive Director, LGBT National Help Center

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