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Last Updated: 15th June 2022 2:50 pm
Description about our idea and project
Description about our idea and project
We started thinking on various topics and finalized mental health as our project. We thought that mental health is being left out and not being discussed enough in our society. We plan to make a hand book which gives tips or suggestions to people with mental health issues. Most of the mental health issues do not require medical assistance and can be resolved with proper help. We went through a lot of websites and made different charts, mind maps etc. to find out the root cause. We segregated Mental Health into different sections, we short listed them and a went through a lot of statistics. we look forward to help people with mental health issues.
Mission of the Project
Mission of the Project
The Goal of the Project it to make people stay mentally healthy.
Where did we Begin ?
Where did we Begin ?
We thought that mental health is a very important issue to be addressed. Almost 10% of 1.3 billion strong population suffers from mental health issues in India. In order to address these issues we thought to make a simple "Handbook" to help people cope up from these issues.
Initially we started with discussing about the problems to be solved. And based on lot of brainstorming of ideas we came up with a lot of ideas.
1) Changes and additions in pedology to further empathetic values among students in academically and work intensive institutions
2) Working on Mental Health of university students
3) Elderly Care
4) Drinking Water
5) Educating Farmers
Based on all the suggestions we thought to work on 3 ideas and further reduced it to 1 idea on Mental Health
Where are we today ?
Where are we today ?
Today we believe that we have found the root cause for all the mental health issues people are facing. This helped us in implementing a solution of developing a simple book which would provide life lessons through fun activities; providing hope and belief to people and helping them to look the world in a different perspective thus making sure they overcome or stay mentally healthy .
Mind Map
Mind Map
This chart describes regarding the different mental health categories people are facing(based on our research).
They are:
Anxiety
Eating Disorder
Suicide
Addiction
Diseases
Depression
Communication Disorder
Other disorders
Below each word cloud ,there are few words the helped us to map a particular comment or resource referred to that particular category.
Later we fine grained the problems into smaller questions and each of us tried to address them.
The fine grained problems list is:
Disruptive Behavior
Self Harm
Anger
Low Self Esteem
Stress
Lack of Concentration
Mood Swings
Panic Attacks
Fights
Trust Issues
Peer Pressure
Insomnia
This shows our thorough study on how a mentally unhealthy person ,if not given proper attention might lead to a serious condition of him/her having intention of committing a suicide.
This tells the states a mentally unhealthy person undergoes which lead him/her to suicide.
Towards the top right we find the reasons why people commit suicide.
It also shows the statistics of suicidal rate and methods used by a person to commit suicide.
From the solutions we have found out ,we decided to answer few questions with the help of the solutions obtained. The above images depict them.
From the research and analysis and evaluating and pondering about different ideas we came up with a self help book which was applauded by many
DTL project - Coco Melon.docxTHE PROGRESS
THE PROGRESS
Deciding the problem
Deciding the problem
Based on all the suggestions we thought to work on 3 ideas and further reduced it to 1 idea on Mental Health.
Working on the Problem
Working on the Problem
We segregated Mental Health into different section or categories and mini problems related to it. We wrote all the problems on a sheet of paper.
Later we short listed them and made a mind map of all the subdivisions of the mental health issues.
Finding Root Cause for the Problem
Finding Root Cause for the Problem
We did intensive research about the medical facilities, procedures for detecting mental health conditions of people. We also collected current statistics about India's Mental Health.
By going through a lot of data we found that the root cause for mental illness is depression.
We also found events leading to mental health issues and depression among others and sequence of events leading to people feeling problems in mental health thus leading to suicide.
Mental Health Statistics Research
Sources Referred:
https://www.ourbetterworld.org/series/mental-health/support-toolkit/mental-health-asia-numbers?
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0366(19)30475-4/fulltext
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2215-0366%2819%2930475-4
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/11312-lead-poisoning
https://www.slideshare.net/drshkazmi/district-mental-health-programme-dmhp
https://www.webmd.com/depression/guide/causes-depression
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748011/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/8933#support-hotline
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684250/
Finding Methods to solve the problem
Finding Methods to solve the problem
All of the members of the team sat together and started coming up with solutions to the major issues in the mind map.
Each person had t come up with 3 solutions for each subtopic in the mind-map and answers to the questions given by sir.
Later we formulated 3 questions to be answered and found our answers which were to be very unique from each other.
How might we help people cope up with the society?
↬ Focus on the positive aspects of your life.
↬ Volunteer to help others
↬ Write Journal
↬ Build positive relationship
↬ Try improving yourself day by day
↬ Learn to be assertive
↬ Spend time with people who respect your decisions
↬ Challenge bad thoughts about yourself
↬ Set realistic goals and expectations
↬ Try to see things from a different perspective
↬ Don’t try to seek attention rather keep doing your work
↬ Learn to trust yourself
↬ Learn to use positive coping statements
↬ Just say “All is Well” to yourself
↬ Meditation
↬ Don’t compare yourself with others
↬ Have friends with similar values and beliefs
↬ Be your own best friend
How do we help people manage different levels of anger?
↬ Suggest them few excercises that can help them calm your nerves
↬ Stress Ball
↬ Meditation
↬ Help them aware of their anger trigger sign
↬ If they are using alcohol help them to make it avoidable
↬ Use humor to make them decrease their levels of anger
↬ Ask them to count till 10 before a word in anger
↬ Listen to Music
↬ Discuss with them what makes them angry
↬ Document the sequence of events and try to avoid them
↬ Strengthen your social, communication and problem solving skills
↬ Help them to acknowledge the feelings of the individual
↬ Spend time with nature
↬ Do not let outside influences cloud your judgement
↬ Step away from the situation to cool down
↬ Calm down and spend some time alone and understand the broader view
↬ Be honest
↬ Try to resolve the issue then and there itself
How do we help people manage different levels of fear?
↬ Have your fear of insecurity feeling cleared by maintaining a good relationship with other
↬ Try to see things from a different perspective
↬ Spend some time alone and understand the broader view
↬ Learn to trust yourself
↬ Make trust a priority
↬ Focus on Positive aspects
↬ Learn to use positive coping statements
↬ Just say “All is Well” to yourself
↬ Don’t compare yourself with others
↬ Be your own best friend
Lets have a Debate
Lets have a Debate
we had to short list and select 4 or 5 points from the plethora of points written by us during the last week meeting.
We had a debate over selected points to discuss the pro's and con's of each one of them.
we also had a very useful discussion with sir, in which we talked about students indulging in drugs.
Time to Classify
Time to Classify
We classified the solutions for different problems on the basis of difficulty to implement, time taken, cost and the method of implementation.
we rated them on the basis of 1-5, 5 being the highest.
For the method of implementation, we had to segregate them on the basis of software, hardware, personal assistance and requirement of infrastructure.
Lets Implement
Lets Implement
On lot of Brain storming we decided to write a book. We wanted to make a book which will be as a good friend to the readers and engages them into different activities and makes them ponder about themselves and their beautiful memories.
First we drew an outline of the book deciding upon the contents to be present in it.
Later we made a manual hard copy of it and a soft copy of it too. The goal of the book is to help readers solve their problems by looking it in a different perspective which they may not tend to do so in their respective mental state. We felt that the book would help them to analyze themselves give them hope and a bit fun on doing the exercises in it and help them look at the world in a different perspective. And finally we arrived at a book name called "BE KIND TO YOUR MIND". ☺️
On the way to Review
On the way to Review
We solicited feedback on our prototype.
We put our prototype on display along the media lab corridor and asked for feedback.
We told them it was a mental health handbook for the first reviews, and they were really satisfied with the presentation.
Later on, We just asked them what the book was , and the majority of them identified it as a mental health: self-help book.
The fill-in-yourself pages in the book piqued the pupils' curiosity, and they were pretty impressed.
They emphasized that these kind of fill-in-yourself pages keep the user engaged and makes the book dynamic.
Questions?
Questions?
Feel free to contact us at mucocomelon@gmail.com
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