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In just a few words: What does self-
care look like for you these days?
● Mindfulness Meditation!
● laugh
● at home work outs
● Jump Rope
● Going for walks
● mindfulness
● Going on jogs
● Walking
● skin care
● Work out and clean
● bring it
● eat well, walking
● laughing forsureeeee
● evening walks
● Making Disney Ears
● Headspace
● Jamming to kpop music
● Bike riding
● evening walks
● Reading for fun
● walking
● Deep breathing
● Cooking, crafting
● Showers
● Working on creating healthy habits
● Drawing or painting
● Mental illness started to be real tough
for me in the teenage years:(
● 👍
● Thumbs up
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Some movies and tv shows
that show mental illness…
● Split
● Dead to me
● The Joker
● Atypical and The Good
Doctor
● Goadd
● killing eve
● Good trouble
● Glads
● Jocker
● Sling Blade
● The joker
● Fight club
● shameless
● The joker
● Glass
● good doctor
● Black swan
● A Beatiful Mind
● The road within
● Joy
● united states of tara
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Characters with mental
illness are portrayed as…
● troubled
● Most are negative
● Uncut Gems
● girl interrupted
● unstable
● Negative
● Misunderstood
● isolated
● Depressed
● crazy
● dangerous
● Negative
● Stigmatized
● Not fit for society
● crazy
● Looking for control of their
lives
● Psychopath
● Stereotypes
● Valued little
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How does stigma feel?
● It's such a pity that seeking help for
mental health issues is associated
with stigma. I'd love to see the day
where we could easily for to the
psychatrist/therpaist as if we were to
see our physician for a cold.
● I can often be impatient with people
who don't follow up, respond, or
fulfill their obligations, but I need to
remember that you don't know what
people are dealing with
● this film allows me to see how there
are people in the community that can
help
● Isolating
● Bad
● Shameful
● Alienated
● isolating
● frusterating and
underestimated
● sad
● Undervalued
● like i am nothing and
its frustrating
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What makes it difficult
to reach out for help?
● feeling ashamed
● judgement
● First time is always tough
● the cost
● Their family not believing in
seeking help
● Getting critisized
● What had made it hard for me
to reach out is not knowing
where/who to reach out to.
Who I can trust to talk to about
my mental health issues.
● Feeling ashamed and what
people think about me
● Being percieved differently
as a weird person afterwards.
● Not being able to access resources
● Being Criticized
● they don't take you seriously
● Being seen as a wuse
● It's like I'm different from everybody else
and if I were to seek help, closed
members wouldn't believe me and think
it's false.
● Being told you are weak or being
dramatic
● weak
● As a person with ASD, being seen as not
being capable of doing many things as
an adult.
● Acknowledging you actually do have a
problem
● It feels uncomfortable personally.
24. Blue
By Samuel León
AWI Winner, September 2018
Content heads up: substance use
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What did you think?
What did you feel?
● stressful and anxious
● panic
● tense
● Using substance abuse
to cope w/ PTSD
● Like your trapped
● Felt tense and anxous
● nervous
● i felt stress
● intense
● anxious to see how she would
cope or what she would do to
calm herself down
● overcoming herself
● nervous
● heart-racing
● thats was powerful
● best part
● releasing
● something good came out of
something bad.
● That she can move on and use
her pain to make a beautiful
painting
● powerful scene
● Like she decided to take out her
anxiety through art, instead of
substance abuse
● as an artiest this hit me on a
personal level
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What are some practices that
help support your wellness?
● write poetry
● journal
● Attend therapy
● exercise and giving myself down
time at the end of the day
● Listening to some music. I personally
love rock music and music from the
1960s and 70s!
● gratitude journal
● run
● Dance
● craft activities
● establish some kind of routine in
your day
● Spirituality
● exercise
● beach walks
● at least an hour of leisure time a
day by yourself
● prayer
● dancing
● Painting
● karaoke
● Looking up to God fro support:)
● mediation helps
● Sewing
● Walkim
● yoga
● Penny Lane
● you can just do Yoga breathing
● no stretching
● haha i cant do the flow either. i
do it for strengthening
● Swimming
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What did you think?
What did you feel?
● Hit hard
● hard to watch
● Hard to watch
● It was hard to watch because it
reminds me about my life
● very deep
● Happy he had a friend
● distancing from loved ones
● I think it started to hit with the
board that said "Never Not
Emotional"
● Hard to see becsuse there many of
us who went through this
● I felt tense in my body, the ocean
parts felt as if he felt he was
drowning.
● Looking at how he was experiencing
mental illness reminds me of how I
go through experiencing my own
situation.
● As an adult with mental illness.
● I felt that he found emotional support
● Its hard for me to talk and this film
remind me to talk how I feel even if
Im scared what people think about
me
● great example of truth. the ocean is
us and the mom is how we are
treated
● I think almost every person with
mental illness feels trap at times.
● Then there is the stereotype that
black people can't swim
● I didn't know that! interesting
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How can we support
ourselves and others?
● We can reach out to others and ask how they are doing.
● Ask
● yes! kindness & empathy
● lend a listening ear
● Ask how they have been and let them know that we are here
● being more understanding and patient with myself and others
● Be open-minded and understanding of others' circumstances.
● Motivate each other
● compliment someone's outfit or style (music, etc), sharing you have similar
interests!
● the only time you look down at a person is to help them up.
● Express empathy. As someone who has Autism, I can be empathetic
toward others who are experiencing mental illness
● I always compliment people too!
● Spreading smiles
● listen without judgement
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Meet the Panel
bit.ly/m4mho-sac
Gerardo Guerra, he/him
Senator for DSPS, Associated Student Government
Student, Santa Ana College
Savannah Chase, she/her
Assistant, Veterans Resource Center
Student, Santa Ana College
Basti Lopez De La Luz, she/her/ella
Coordinator for Dual Enrollment / Advisor to IDEAS Club, Santa Ana College
Jerika White, she/her
College Program Coordinator, NAMI Orange County
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