Depression is a heavy feeling, something that hovers over you, like one of those dark clouds that follow cartoon characters around when they have a bad day, a heavy feeling that people find themselves trapped with and can’t escape it. I am Currently advocating for teen depression and was given the task of creating a T-Shirt design that people who have dealt with depression in the past or are currently dealing with it would feel proud of wearing, meaning that the message behind the design must not be stigmatizing to them in any way. My group and I worked on a T-shirt design for around 3 weeks and came up with the Idea of a brain with band aids on it and under the brain we hand wrote the phrase “Still repairing”. What that meant to us was that depression is not something you can easily overcome, it takes Time and not a little, A LOT, It is something you slowly get over with many different things such as social support, being outdoors and being active and most importantly taking the time to really be patient with yourself and not give up. Good Things take time. After getting feedback from graphic designer David Varela we talked about incorporating certain factors or things that help overcome depression on the band aids to represent that you are healing or “repairing” as you do those things. As me and my group continued discussing our T-Shirt design and figuring out ways to change our slogan into something less stigmatizing. The reason why reducing stigma is so important is because many teenagers that deal not specifically with depression but with any mental illness in general do not get the professional support/treatment necessary in order to overcome or help cope with it, because according to the depression cure "TLC has been over three times higher than that of the antidepressant "treatment as usual" in the community". To understand more about mental health stigma: stop stigma 2017
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AuthorMy Name is Vanessa Anguiano, I am a junior at High Tech High Chula Vista. |