This document summarizes a virtual event about movies and mental health. It introduces the facilitator, Marlene Padron, and describes the event agenda which includes setting the scene, watching and discussing short films, and a panel discussion. The facilitator establishes guidelines for an open and supportive discussion. Participants then engage in group reflections on movies portraying mental illness, stigma, cultural perspectives, and self-care practices. The event includes mindfulness exercises, short film screenings, and a question and answer session with a panel of mental health professionals. Participants are encouraged to provide feedback and sign up for future events.

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About Your Facilitator
Marlene Padron, she/her
● Have been working towards social
justice in various non-profits, and
healthcare agencies.
● Wandering heart has lead me to live
in 4 states in the past decade
● Stay connected to Mexican culture
through family, cooking, music, and
traditional folkloric dance
● Highlight of pandemic experience
thus far: Learning grandma's
traditional recipes (over videochat)

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○ Campus workshops
○ Monthly short film competition
○ Short film production grants
○ Global community
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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 chance to enter to win
$25!)
● Mingle / Q&A
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Mental health is personal – YOU are the expert
on your own experience
This is a public, shared space
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?
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● Working out
● Preparing my own meals
● Going to new places (looking up
directions
● Journaling
● Meditations
● Listening to music
● Creating music
● Walks

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MENTAL HEALTH

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Mental illness
Mental wellness
MENTAL HEALTH

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Some movies and TV shows
that show mental illness…
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● euphoria
● Ozark
● Rain man
● Joker
● Divine sisters of yaya

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Characters with mental
illness are portrayed as…
● ● sympathetic
● Negative
● Creative
● Lack of sympathy
● Uncaring about others
● Confused
● Unsafe
● Distraught
● melancholy

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MH ACROSS CULTURES
Across different cultures and languages, people talk
about and explore mental health in multiple ways.
In just a few words, please share:
How have you experienced the concept of "mental
health" within your own cultural communities?
● Kind of overlooked
● Not taken seriously
● Underestimated
● Treated as a disease
● Just take some medicine, take a pill for it
● Stigma
● White elephant of the room - no one talks about it
● There is no word for it (in my language), the word used is
crazy
● Something of the devil

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

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By Cheyanne Glazier
AWI Winner, October 2021
CONTENT HEADS UP
depictions and interpretations of depression and
bipolar disorder, suicidal ideation, straitjacket imagery

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IN SMALL GROUPS...
WHAT DID YOU THINK?
HOW DID YOU FEEL?
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SHARE WITH US:
What did you think?
How did you feel?
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● Music stood out
● Very relatable - connect to their experience
● No judgement or criticism
● Isolation - pandemic
● Overthinking
● Importance of being open minded

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How does stigma feel?
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● Pretty frustrating
● Overwhelming
● People think your crazy, lazy
● People assuming its always
negative
● Unaccepting - further isolation
● Judgement
● Unloved

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What makes it difficult to
reach out for help?
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● Yourself - keep self hostage to it
● Thinking there’s no solution
● Stigma - need exercises and built in institutions to
receive and access support
● Pride
● People don’t take you seriously
● Think that there’s something really bad
● You don’t realize that there’s something wrong
● Worrying about even talking about the traumas/ptsd
● Worrying about getting upset while talking about
● Not feeling trustful
● Not knowing what resources to make use of

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BREATHING
EXERCISE

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SELF REFLECTION
HOW WAS THIS BREATHING
EXERCISE FOR YOU?
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20. Chained
By Dustin Lowman
AWI Winner, September 2016
CONTENT HEADS UP
post traumatic stress, veteran

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IN PAIRS...
WHAT DID YOU THINK?
HOW DID YOU FEEL?
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SHARE WITH US:
What did you think?
How did you feel?
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● Imagery of the ground/tree
● Symbolism
● Everyone has their own limitations
● Use of certain instruments and music conveys
the story
● The idea of being stuck and trying to so hard
to get better until you try something
differently

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What are some practices
that help support
your wellness?
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● Establishing daily routine to get day started - puts
in best mindset
● Talking to someone you trust - building support
network / family time
● Therapy sessions
● Spiritual counseling
● exercising/working out
● Art
● Music
● Games on computer or phone
● Daily structure and routine
● Being in nature
● Practicing being grateful for what you have

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BODY
SCAN

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SELF REFLECTION
HOW WAS THIS
BODY SCAN FOR YOU?
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26. Sal Tran
By Kim Huynh
AWI Winner, March 2018
CONTENT HEADS UP
mentions of: sexual violence, suicide attempts, systemic oppression,
depression, anxiety, substance use, and PTSD

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SELF REFLECTION
WHERE DID YOU EXPERIENCE
THIS IN YOUR BODY?
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What are your impressions?
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● It was good, excellent all of it!
● Kind of scary, sad - bullying
● Relatable
● Felt very authentic, real and vulnerable about
experiences
● The bullying, I relate to - not necessarily gender
identity, but other types
● Bullying doesn’t always get dealt with the way it
should
● I like the way she talked about her mental illness
but also talked about her mental wellness
● I didn’t like the definitive statement about “this will
be in my life forever” it can be said that we’re
dealing with it daily, but we don’t know the future
● Important to stay positive

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How can we support
ourselves and others?
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● Try new things and run home with what works for you
● Volunteer work
● Up and comer artists/musicians offering support
● Self awareness - checking in with ourselves and what
our needs are
● Being compassionate for others
● Be kind to yourself

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PANEL
Round of applause
for our panel!
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Interview and discussion opportunities
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MEET THE PANEL
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Tarlease Jones (she/her)
Career Ambassador/Outreach Mentor, Career Services, San Diego
Miramar College
Amanda Woodrum (she.her)
Student, Vice President of Club Spectrum and Club Representative
for ASG
Julia Kamp, LCSW 80670 (she/her)
Mental Health Counselor, San Diego Miramar College, SDCCD
Max Higgins (he/him)
Lead TAY Clinician, Douglas Young Wellness Recovery Center

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Please fill out the evaluation!
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You can enter for a chance to win a $25 gift!
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at the end of the evaluation, you’ll be prompted to add your
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Evaluation responses will remain separate and anonymous.

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Mingle / Panel Q&A
Ask a question or share a
thought!
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Stay in touch:
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name and email on the
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