May 26, 2017
As a gift to yourself during mental health month, we invite you to take a few minutes each day to explore mental health topics through short film. Each week day in May 2017 the Art With Impact team will select a film from our library and pair it with stories, links, information, and questions for personal reflection. Our hope is to engage with our friends (new and old) to create conversations that explore the many roles that mental health plays in our lives. Please join the conversation in the comments, below, or on social media using #myMHmatters and @artwithimpact. This week: college mental health and advocacy.
Mental health in the LGBTQ community
Everyone has a mental health story.
This film is a story of friendship, adventure, love and loss, all entwined to create a personal story of coming to terms with a diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder.
A Film About Love by Dale John Allen
Questions
These questions are offered as an opportunity for self-reflection. If you’d like to share your responses, we invite you to do so in the comments, or on social media using #myMHmatters and @artwithimpact.
- How might LGBTQ people have more difficulty than others to receive mental health care?
- How can allies to the LGBTQ community extend their allyship to specifically include the mental health of LGBTQ people?
Resources
- The Trevor Project is a national 24-hour, toll free confidential suicide hotline and the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ) young people ages 13-24. Text or chat: 1-866-488-7386
- Frameline hosts the San Francisco International LGBTQ Film Festival, the longest-running, largest and most widely recognized LGBTQ film exhibition event in the world, with a film collection of 250 award winning films.
- Each Mind Matters – California’s Mental Health Movement created to unite all who share a vision of improved mental health and equality. They offer a “Be True to You: A Basic Mental Health Guide for LGBTQ Teens” discussing mental health and its relationship to sexual orientation and gender identity.
One Last Thing…
We have a present for you. 🙂 “Finding and Maintaining Mental Wellness” is an eBook that the AWI staff wrote to introduce concepts around mental health using short films from the OLIVE Collection. Download it for yourself, or for a friend… during May is Mental Health Month it’s our gift to you.
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