Glendale CC - M4MHO - 10-29-20

#Movies4MentalHealth
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About Your Facilitator
Natalie Patterson, she/her
Poet
Teaching artist
Humanist
Natalieispoetry.com
IG: @natalieispoetry

A
Student
at GCC
Poll: Who’s here today?
B Staff or
faculty
at GCC
C
Someone else
(share in
the
chat!)

A
California
Poll: Where in the world are you?
B Another
state
C Another
country

Brought to you by…
• Campus workshops
• Monthly short film competition
• Short film production grants
• Global community
Individual Sponsors
• Patricia McMahon, LMFT

Here’s the Plan
• Set the scene together
• Watch and discuss films, connect our minds
and bodies
• Panel of students and resources
• Virtual Mingle / Q&A (Optional)

Heads Up
• Mental health is personal – YOU are the expert
on your own experience
• We're online - this is 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

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#Movies4MentalHealth#Movies4MentalHealth
What does self-care look like for you
these days?
● Meditation, exercise, and quiet time.
● Staying active
● Painting and reading
● yoga and making myself a nice meal
● exercise
● Hiking and painting
● dancing in my room
● Watching sports
● Drawing
● 10 minute meditations in the morning
● Taking time to do things that make me happy
● cooking
● Just making sure to take time to relax
● reading & building model kits
● Meditation, listening music
● Skin care, taking walks, reading
● dance
● That's simply October.
● Staying positive and counting my blessings
● taking care of your hygiene as well
● listening music and watching movies
● i am overwhelmed with all the war news in my
country on top Covid try to stay focused meditate
and limit news and eat healthier

Mental Health

Mental Health
• Mental illness
• Mental wellness

Some movies and TV shows
that show mental illness…
● Naurto
● big mouth
● "After Life" (Netflix: Ricky Gervais)
● vow
● Homeland
● "The Queen's Gambit"
● One Day at a TIme
● Hannibal TV series
● Legion
● Sex education
● the perks of being a wallflower
● To The Bone- a movie about anorexia with lilly collins
● the joker
● 13 reasons why
● Community
● the boys
● spinning out
● Top Boy
● the movie Silence of Lamb
● bo jack horseman
● Dexter
● Cobra Kai
● Punch Drunk Love

Characters with mental
illness are portrayed as…
● crazy
● Often as depressed.
● sauske
● aggresive
● The Joker - crazy
● misunderstood
● Outcasts
● overall negatively especially in media
● afraid of losing oneself
● crazy
● lies
● crazy homeless people
● depressed, dark, negative, confused
● dangerous
● two sides of mental illness
● bipolars in lots of characters

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?
MH Across Cultures
● they are sick but mentally ill and that is illeness as any other illness and need treatment
● Not talked about.
● stigmatized, not accepted as valuable, not talked about, "
● don't talk about it.
● I am told to "stop being depressed. If you want to be happy, be happy." Completely
oversimplified.
● I have other "crazy" relatives in my family!!!!
● In my Armenian family, mental well-being is often overlooked and simplified as "it's in your
head"
● That its a mindset and to toughen up
● in armenian culture, it is supressed and looked down upon, or what we feel may be "evil"
● Not validated much
● accepted and talked about
● i am Armenian and talking about mental issues were and still is tabu in our communities but
now they are getting better in seeking help or go to counseling
● very religious culture, so they say you are not close to God
● not talked about
● most often we don't pay attention until its very bad
● my family were try to support each other . but the individuals refuse to talk, self included
● The reform Jewish community is very open .. therapy is accepted, taking care of mental
health is accepted. my parents always bring up therapy for every emotional health problem or
life struggle. They see it like getting a check up or physical.
● Cultural Communities Like I Don't Believe in God I interpret Life after death my way ?

What is Stigma?
• A judgment or stereotype that is:
• Always negative
• Always untrue
• Can be internalized

Tekona
By Tomás Karmelo Amaya and Shalene Joseph
AWI Winner, August 2019
Content heads up: cultural stigma,
masculine mental health

A
Hopeful
Poll: How are you feeling after
watching this film?
B
Sad
D
Angry / Frustrated
C
Worried / Anxious
E
Overwhelmed

● It's a burden one carries with them into
every situation.
● infuriating
● outcasted
● judged
● frustrating
● misunderstood
● frustrating because it blocks people from
understanding the nuances in a person
or people ..the things that make them
beautiful and unique
● Not being understood at all!
● not belonging or feeling different even
that is not true
How does stigma feel?

What makes it difficult
to reach out for help?
● stigma
● ego
● Feeling that there is no help. No one understands.
● ack of access,
● Embarrassment or weakness
● Pride
● it makes me feel weak
● pride
● people minimizing another's concerns
● nothing but you
● Learned helplessness
● Feeling judged (whether self-imposed or not).
● people may find out in the future and it may hurt my emplyment,
relationships etc..
● Not knowing if I'm just in a bad mood or if I do need help
● poor health care in this country
● the cost too sometimes if there are no resources
● Thats so true
● closed mouth won't get feed
● i feel like therapy is seen as a drastic measure and we feel like "its not that
bad"
● I keep asking for help from the wrong people even within my health plan!
● Therapy is expensive for help
● It's easier to tell ourselves that we're fine because it requires less energy to
explore.

Breathing Exercise

A
Relaxing
Poll: How was this breathing
exercise for you?
B Invigorating
or
Refreshing
D MehC New
E Stressful
or
Uncomfortable

The Beautiful Black Man
By Calvin J Walker
Content heads up: intergenerational trauma,
cultural and structural racism, self-harm, images of slavery

What did you think?
What did you feel?
● Chills! Thats was awesome.
● That was powerful
● powerful
● sad
● anger and sadness
● nice male prose !
● I like the physical metaphor shown with the flowers
● frustration
● Anger and sadness
● I think its about acceptance- having to be more than anyone
should have to just for acceptance- something everyone should
have. I also think it's about love having to be mixed with fear and
a deep need for protection because of discrimination and
conditioning. And I think it’s about having to hide venerability as
a black man and the weight of that
● sad and almost like you want help you don't know how
● sadness
● Black men & women are beautiful!
● I felt the nice prose .

What are some practices that
help support your wellness?
● mindfulness
● Being honest with ourselves and others.
● community
● Giving ourselves and others radical self love.
● writing in a journal, just letting all your
feelings out, no barriers
● Being in community with supportive and
loving people
● communicating with people when theres a
problem
● learning to say no and put ourselves first
sometimes we all need it
● Yes to no!
● taking time for reflection

Body Scan

A
Relaxing
Poll: How was this body scan
exercise for you?
B
Invigorating or
Refreshing
D MehC New
E
Stressful or
Uncomfortable

The Side Effects of Normal
By Mari Wrobi
Content heads up: PTSD, Intersex Surgery, IGM (intersex
genital mutilation), Misgendering

A Head
Poll: Where did you experience
this in your body?
B
Shoulders
D
Somewhere else
C Belly
E I didn’t
feel it
in my
body

What did you think?
What did you feel?
● i think it was more of the fact that the person didn't get the choice
● in my chest, my breathing.
● it was about choice and not being given one
● I feel optimistic about the future now!
● Immediately jarring: the thought of reaching for my genitals and seeing
blood was impactful.
● Clearly this was meant to give us a glimpse of the trauma one would
experience after going through surgery.
● If I'm being honest, I'm unsure how the person who said they barely
found out she was intersex already as an adult .. like what might that
have looked like.
● they*
● society has to change why should an individual's life be ruined in
hopes of normalcy
● i blame the parents for being to afraid of having an uncomfortable
conversation.
● I held tension within my shoulders as I was journeying along with their
story. It brings my own perspectives and experiences into focus.

How can we support
ourselves and others?
● Be empathetic and listen to them
● Don't assume we know and ask instead
in a compassionate way
● just to be nice and friendly to everyone
● vote!
● accepting/empathy
● smile, wait, listen
● Be honest
● Listen to your body is telling you, hear
other people out.
● And Vote, YESSSS
● willing to have uncomfortable
conversations
● Listen, empathize, accept
● Ask the correct person in my health
plan!

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Meet the Panel
bit.ly/m4mho-glendale
René Zadoorian (he/him)
Student, Glendale CC
Astghik Zakevosyan, (she/her)
Mental Health Trainee, Health Center, Glendale CC
Arakel Aristakessian, (he/him)
Consultant, Pride Center, Glendale CC
Jason Romero, (he/him)
Director of Development and Outreach, NAMI Glendale

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