How to take care of your Mental Health

My name is Federica Egidia Nato, I’m a student at the University of Bari “Aldo Moro”, I come from Italy. I’m a trainee here in Granada at AIFED. I watched the “Mental Health Care” video and I really found it functional, because it talks about a very significant issue.

This video is entitled “Mental Health Care” and it’s part of the project “Recover”. Taking care of our mental health care is one of everyone’s rights and, for this reason, checking if we are good mentally and phisically is our duty. Nowadays it’s not easy to admit and accept that we can have sometimes some psychological problems. In our society it’s common to complain and to consider normal only physical problems, like our mind wasn’t part of our bodies.

We’re ashamed to accept that we have mental health problems and, consequentially, asking for help. This video shows through the illustration of comics how to approach to this situation and not to be ashamed to ask for help. The use of comics gives to the video a simple style that can be understood from a varied public.

There are two young guys. The girl tells the boy that lately she’s reasoning about how to manage some mental problems, but she’s scared, because she’s worried about others’ prejudices. The guy tells her not to be worried, because we don’t have to stigmatize mental health issues.

So, this video demonstrates not only the normality of asking for help about that but also not to give importance about what other people think.