this week the workforce observes mental health week. "not myself today" is a campaign developed to focus on helping companies and organizations achieve (1) better understanding of one's own mental health; (2) reducing stigma, and (3) fostering a safe, open and supportive work environment.
we watched a documentary film titled "THE BRIDGE", a documentary about the golden gate bridge in san francisco, california. The film was inspired by a 2003 article titled "Jumpers," written by Tad Friend for The New Yorker magazine. The film crew shot almost 10,000 hours of footage, recording 23 of the known 24 suicides off the bridge in 2004. - wikipedia.org
it's a film not for the faint of heart so i'm not putting a link here, but if you are interested in seeing it, it is on youtube.com.
i think i might have related in one of my posts earlier in my stint here on 365 about my friend who committed suicide by jumping on the subway track, so i do have an almost first-hand experience of how it feels when someone you value and respect takes his/her own life.
thank you for your kind visits and comments; know that they are greatly appreciated.
NOTE: these are the buttons i have saved over the years during the campaigns. today i actually was able to get "happy" and "calm". later at lunch there's a handicapped young man in our office who wanted the 'happy' button so i gave it to him. glad to have made someone happy with the happy button.
I think 'not myself today' should be very useful in its aims of helping folk to understand issues surrounding mental health. I think I cannot watch the film but I do send you all my sympathy about your friend - that must have been a really difficult time. I've just put my own personal post on bipolar awareness day in UK: http://365project.org/quietpurplehaze/365/2016-10-04
That sounds like a hard hitting piece of viewing. Thank you for posting about mental health issues. So important. Great pictorial representation that you have created.
Sounds like a good program- and helpful to get people to think more about someone else besides themselves. Nice processing too. As you know we are well acquainted with suicide in this house.
My heart goes out to you summerfield, my mum and step dad committed suicide, so I share your pain at losing your friend xx mental health needs a kinder awareness as no one ever knows if they are going to be next
October 7th, 2016
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