A project to increase mental health literacy in Singapore
If, like myself and many of the clients I see, you struggle with that internal conflict in your mind, I recommend that you watch The Monster in the Mirror. It conceptualises being made of different parts in a fun and easy-to-digest way. I encourage you to be a little friendlier to all your parts today; try to hear them out in a non-judgemental way rather than trying to shut them down or ignore them.
Whether we’re looking at a disorder or someone’s ability to regulate their own emotions, the biopsychosocial model can help conceptualise the contributing factors. These factors don’t sit in silos – they interact with each other.
“…because it’s a fact, well enshrined in folklore, that if we are to kill the demon, then first we have to say its name.”
Be it through observing their behaviour, monitoring their grades, or looking through their homework, educators have more insight into the psyche of students than they may realise. With this insight so readily available to them, it is important that educators know what to do with such insight.
If an 11-year old’s essay about a self-harmer who killed herself is not alarming, I don’t know what is.
If we stop letting our history – no matter how recent – of suicide control what we say or how we talk to others, we stop giving it the power to force us into living in shame. The best part is that the more we talk about it, the more we empower those around us to talk about it, and the more we take away suicide’s hold on all of us.
A campaign launched by Campaign Against Living Miserably [CALM] earlier this year urges people to grow a pair.
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