Mental Health During A Global Pandemic
The Ask
Develop a project that will allow you to create community interactions for a 21 day period. Think of a project that will engage people to participate in a way that is both easy and novel. You must have some way to track participants involvement and develop a way to share those interactions.
The Problem
Mental health has always been a topic that has been somewhat overlooked in our society. For whatever reason, society doesn’t deem a person’s mental health to be as important as their physical health.
In addition, the global pandemic we currently are going through has drastically increased numbers in suicide, depression, anxiety and many other mental illnesses that our society still continues to give the cold shoulder.
The Purpose
The purpose behind my project is to bring more awareness to mental health issues and also to show the people who participate in answering these questions that what they are feeling is okay and that they aren’t the only ones who feel that way.
Leaving It To Social Media
Over the course of 21 days I asked my 1,426 Instagram followers questions about their mental health, mental health awareness and how COVID-19 has impacted them mentally.