You're Not Alone Magazine

YOU’RE NOT ALONE JUNE 2015

Andoni Herrera, Fernanda Mauri & Cecilia Torres. 3°A

The Trevor Project: Leading suicide prevention center

Interview with Dr. Fernando Ruiz Spreading the Word: Our poster, brochure and graphics.

Did you know? Section and tips on how to overcome these problems

Illness Dangers Deadly consequences about emotional and mental problems

Managing Mental and Emotional Health 0

CONTENTS INTRO 2. Who are we?

EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL PROBLEMS 3. What are they? Understanding Emotions, Depression, and CADE.

SPREADING THE WORD 9. Our association poster, brochure, and graphics.

DID YOU KNOW? 12. Facts about people with this type of problems.

TIPS 13. Learn how to handle these problems and overcome them.

INTERVIEW 14. Dr. Fernando Ruiz.

THE TREVOR PROJECT 16. Suicide prevention association.

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INTRO Who are we?

We are an association to lower the teens emotional and mental problems standards. We are 3 teens (Andoni, Isabel, and Cecilia) who are showing the problems of not having a good mental and emotional.

Obviously, many people don’t have enough information about these problems, but it is something we are "used to hear about".

We are showing through media the effects of these problems on many people; one of them is this magazine.

Figure 1.1. Another logo of ours.

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EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL PROBLEMS Emotional Problems

First of all, what is emotional health? It is the way a person experiences and deals with emotions. When you start having troubles in dealing with your emotions, you start having emotional problems.

You have to communicate and express your feeling because you are not alone, a lot of persons care about you but sometimes you simply don't let them in. try to express yourself and you would feel better.

Understanding Emotions

Mental Problems

Emotions can be described as pleasant or unpleasant based on how they make you feel. Both of them play an important role in learning.

MENTAL ILLNESS: Is a disorder that affects a person's thoughts, emotions and behavior.

Pleasant emotions make your body feel relaxed or comfortable while unpleasant make you feel uncomfortable.

Recognizing your emotions is not always easy but if you identify your emotions, you may be able to cope with problems better.

TRIGGERS: situations, people or events that cause a person to feel an emotion.

ANXIETY DISORDERS: Cause unusually strong nervousness, worry, or panic.

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Panic disorder.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder.

OTHER DISORDERS:  

Bipolar mood disorder (manic depression).

Schizophrenia.

It's important to recognize the trigger of every feeling you get.

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EMOTIONAL AND MENTAL PROBLEMS Depression

Depression is more than feeling blue; depression is mood disorder in which a person feels extremely sad and hopeless for at least two weeks.

SIGNS:     

Feelings of helplessness and hopelessness.

Loss of interest in daily activities.

Sleep changes Anger or irritability Loss of energy.

If you say yes to more than one you should go and talk with a trusting adult, or find professional health.

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SPREADING THE WORD Poster

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SPREADING THE WORD Brochure

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SPREADING THE WORD Brochure

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SPREADING THE WORD Graphics

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DID YOU KNOW? Facts

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8 of 100 teens report having serious depression. o That’s 2 out of every 25 teens.

8% of all teens have an anxiety disorder.

5% have ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder).

3% have ODD (Oppositional Defiance Disorder).

1% has OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder).Only 38% of teens with mood disorders receive help.

Only 38% with mood disorders receive help.

Only 15% with substance abuse problems get the help they need.

Only 13% of Eating Disorder sufferers get help.

Over 20% of young adults have a mental illness.

35% of teenaged girls have an eating disorder. o That’s 7 out of every 25 teen girls.

10% of all teens suffering from an eating disorder are male.

4,000 young teens commit suicide every year.

1 of 5 will get the help they need.

Figure 2. Sometimes we just le tour feelings get over us.

Figure 2.1. Depressed and emotionally disturbed people tend to see the worse part of their life.

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TIPS Learn how to handle and overcome these problems

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Take away anything that may be used to commit suicide.

Try talking to people with these problems.

Checkup people that tried a suicide attempt.

Spread the word about treating these problems through media.

Making professionals in medical attention.

HELP YOU     

Exercise outside.

Talk about your problems with someone you trust.

Write on a paper how you feel.

Find what makes you happy and do what you enjoy doing.

Learn how to spend more time with yourself.

Figure 3. Always think positive and ask for help when it’s needed.

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INTERVIEW Dr. Fernando Ruiz

We went with the psychologist Dr. Fernando Ruiz to make an interview.

We got this answers: Q: How often are the patients that come with depression?

A: Is frequently, we can say that 3 of every 10 patients that come to private therapy have depression or a problem associated with depression.

Q: What do you recommend depressed people to do?

A: Do? Well, there are formulas.

People have to do things that they enjoy doing, for example: dancing, listen to music with good message help to have a good mood. Taking a shower helps a lot too.

Q: What tips can you tell us to avoid emotional problems?

A: Actually is not about avoiding the emotional problems, I think there is not a vaccine, no one can be rid of them, we all suffer in a way of an emotional problem in a part of our lives. So, it actually is to learn how to deal with an emotional problem y know how to overcome it. Is like a

watercourse, frequently you’ll find problems, so you need to create strategies to confront these problems.

Q: Why do teens, like us, think that nobody understand us?

A: Well, I think that the teenagers are searching for an identity, they are searching for a starting point, and on that starting point is easy to take a posture of “no one understands me” later “no one understands” and then “I can understand” and finally “I can start to understand”. Is like a challenge, “like you don’t understand me I have to do the things”; is like a paradox.

So, in the moment that “no one understands me” I start searching for an alternative for my own.

Q: Why do we get upset when an adult tell us something?

A: Well, I think that happens, lot in city teenagers, in teenagers that have an education barely realistic, with teenagers that barely have human contact.

Why do I refer of? Teenagers that live in place where there isn’t internet, where there isn’t 11

a cellphone, where there isn’t a series of distractors; are teenagers that learn how to interact, they have differences, but they interact. But the city teenager lives really abstracted, really into his or her stuff, so any comment against they feel like the world is ending, and it’s not true. Is common for the humans to differ and with intelligence get to agreements. So, the city teenager is more susceptible to the critic, and reacts to that.

It’s from the social disposition we live in.

Q: Is normal that we all get sad sometimes, but how often and how much is normal for someone to be sad?

A: The sadness is associated with a loss, the psychologist talk about material loss and symbolic loss. Well, how does do a loss mean to you? For example, if I lose my shoe, I buy a new pair of shoes and no big deal, but if I lose a more significant thing, I think I will miss that thing; in the way you miss you feel sad because you don’t find it or you don’t have it and it depends on the value you give that thing. So, it’s not the same you lose a dog, even if you loved it so much, than losing your mom or you dad, you will delay a bit more, delay a lot more. So, there are loses

to loses; changing of school quickly without preparing yourself, leaving your friends is a loss, changing of city, changing of social status, and of having fun are a loss.

Someone that is fan of the PlayStation, one day someone steals it and he or she can’t play it anymore, even when he or she played it every day for 3 hours, uh that person will suffer a lot until that person persuades to get another, that person is happy again.

Q: What factors can lead to have an emotional problem?

A: Over all to understand this as, the counterpart. It’s talked about character.

The character is all we learn to do the right things, ours and for others, individually or in group.

When you have character, you know how to do things well, so a problem you deal with it really easy, but if you don’t know how to do the things, you make them wrong, and others criticize you, you can have an emotional problem; they will criticize you, they will reject you, they will make you bullying. So, we are susceptible to the emotional problems in the way we have lack of formation, information, and education; in the way we have education we have formation, we have good information, we 12

have resources to overcome any challenge. So, that is the answer.

Q: Many people have an emotional or mental problem, but how many take the necessary treatment?

A: Well, that question has to be set a bit all the way around. To the humans, the person is in constant develop, and the live of a human is not the same as a freeway of 8 rails from each side, the live of a human is more like a bumpy dirt road, where you sometimes go slowly and other times you go quickly, there are bump, you get stuck, you get rid of gasoline, the car heats up, the tire flats; so what attitude you take towards all that adversity, where you want to get into a goal. So, the answer is more into if sometime we all needed help, everyone, all society, the total society; sometime we need a psychological help, well the answer is that are few psychologists to treat all the need of orientation, or psychotherapy to treat emotional problems. I mean, there are so few people that can take care of so many problems; it actually is all the way around, when a person that needs help matches, has someone to get help with, or have money to pay a private

therapy, so good for him. But there are a lot of poor people without access of many things, because of lack of money or lack of information, or lack of orientation, there is a lot of people we are not paying attention to, and the result you can see it; the people makes really bad things, in the individual level, as well as in group and social level, how do you like it.

Q: What consequences can lead if it isn’t treated?

A: Well, there are a lot of neurotic people walking throughout the life; the problem is that there is a big difference between taking care of your mental health and to deal with the life like nothing is going to happen. If you take care of your mental health, you can see your limits, your aspirations, and logically you can see more resources to go forward in what you set up as a goal.

Q: Where does the illness develop, in the psyche or in the soma?

A: We are talking about mental problems; it is logic to think it all comes psychologically, the way we think, the way we learn to feel and express the love well it is something that is given psychologically. But, 13

there are a lot of psychological problems that are caused for a somatic disorder; it can be a disorder like people that are fat and want to be thin, well there is a problem, is not something serious, but that person doesn’t accept, or it can a neurologic problem, a hormonal problem; like you want to feel well but, the hormone makes you feel that you are incomplete, there we can see a somatic origin.

Figure 4. His answers were something we can apply in our daily life and forget about “Deleting our existence�.

Figure 4.1. Psychologist Fernando Ruiz during the interview.

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THE TREVOR PROJECT Suicide prevention international association

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What is it?

It is a leading organization that provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention. It gives support to any type of people, including gay, lesbian, transgender, and questioning.

It was founded in 1998 by the creators of the Academy-Award winning short film named “TREVOR”.

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More Information:

Enter to their web page to see ways to volunteer, donate, and ask for help: http://www.thetrevorproject.org/

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Volunteers:

Celebrities like Tyler Oakley, Katy Perry, Daniel Radcliffe, and more.

Strategic Plan and Mission:

End suicide among gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning young people. They make this with some strategies like: 1. Provide crisis counseling to LGBTQ young people thinking of suicide.

2. Offer resources, supportive counseling and a sense of community to LGBTQ young people to reduce the risk that they become suicidal.

3. Educate young people and adults who interact with young people on LGTBQ-competent suicide prevention, risk detection and response.

4. Advocate for laws and policies that will reduce suicide among LGBTQ young people.

Figure 5. “The Trevor Project” logo and slogan.

Figure 5.1. Famous youtuber Tyler Oakley is a volunteer of “The Trevor Project”.

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