#fighting mental illness with different hand curated mental illnesses

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had a hard time finishing the last bites of my food so i pretended it was crime scene evidence and i had to finish before anybody could see it and i was just happy to have my mary maloney moment. food currently being digested beyond recognition in my tummy

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I have more ideas! It's rattling in ma brainn (About the AU idea in this post)

TW: Mentions of suicide and mental illness

Not all of Stanley's missing memories are gone, a bunch of them are in there, just inaccessible to his consciousness.

His unconscious mind can reach them though, and uses some of them in building The Parable

Stanley and Mariella knew each other since elementary school

Mariella's representation in the Parable is directly from Stanley's view of her

She has been both a voice of reason and a total badass infront of him

Stanley is fairly average physically, in a lot of ways, but he is visibly sturdy, and plenty of "tough guys" have tried to pick fights with him for that reason

Where Stanley tried to resolve such conflicts without violence, Mariella has on multiple occasions beat the absolute motherloving shit out of people for trying to mess with her sweet little friend

Stanley is of course, much more frail after the coma, and even after lots of PT, and generally exercising to make up for the muscular atrophy he suffered, he's never quite the same

It's not exactly a physical difference, just something about his demeanor is changed, despite him still being as kind as ever

People don't pick fights with him anymore

The Timekeeper is the ghost of Employee 432

In life, he was suffering from multiple untreated mental illnesses that caused delusions and paranoia, which ultimately resulted in him taking his own life

Stanley was the only person who treated him with even a modicum of respect, hence why his ghost hangs around him

Timekeeper influences The Parable in multiple areas, and eventually assists with guiding Stanley to awakening from it

Though when Narry and The Curator first began collaborating to wake Stanley, TK was working against them; he didn't want Stanley to wake because he knew that if he did he wouldn't be able to communicate with him at all anymore

His behaviors as The Timekeeper are erratic- varying from friendly towards Stanley to very dangerous for him

Before the coma, Stanley was almost exclusively nonverbal- Mariella could count on her hands the number of times she'd heard him speak.

The Narrator had only ever heard it once. That one time was also the only time he'd seen Stanley be aggressive towards another person, and it quite frightened him. (He also found it quite attractive)

The injuries that caused the coma also rendered him unable to vocalize at all after the fact, which wasn't really a big deal for him, but I feel like it's worth noting

Mariella is a lesbian, and Stanley is bi, and they have definitely bonded over pretty women in the past

The Narrator is gay and demisexual

Stanley is usually very warm! But whenever he died in The Parable, his body temperature would drop very suddenly, which frightened The Narrator on more than one occasion.

The Narrator will often hold Stanley's hand while he's at his bedside

Sometimes, after the coma, when they're living together, Stanley or The Narrator will wake up from a nightmare, and end up in the other's bed (until they share one)

Stanley is the big spoon

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The Meanings Of Loneliness For Older Persons

As people, we make every effort to live healthily and go after success and also joy. There requires to be a balance in between physical and also mental well being. When you consider senior wellness, it's typically related to physical health or dementia-prevention, yet we commonly forget that seniors also might fight with solitude and also anxiety.

The transition from job to retired life, the fatality of a loved one, or the diagnosis of an illness, can all make us regret, distressed, unhappy and also add to depression over time. According to Healthline.com, some signs and symptoms of depression are: loss of passion in regular activities, feeling sad, miserable, or empty, changes in appetite, feeling useless or guilty, anxiety or restlessness, difficulty sleeping, sleeping disorders, or resting too much, irrational responses or upset outbursts, difficulty concentrating or making decisions, thoughts of self-destruction or death, and unexplained discomfort. Depression in elderly is harder to recognize due to the fact that they sometimes have actually different signs and symptoms compared to a more youthful demographic.

Chronic Loneliness In The Elderly

Common clinical depression signs in older individuals are more most likely to be: Constantly really feeling tired, Having trouble resting e.g. insomnia, and Grumpiness or easily irritable. Loneliness is likewise a significant reason clinical depression prevails amongst seniors. Social contact lowers as people age, commonly because of lack of wheelchair, retirement as well as other factors leading to greater prices of senior social isolation.

As a result it is essential to keep an eye out for these symptoms as well as minimize them ahead of time for on your own or your liked one. Registered Nurse Next Door has actually curated a listing of tools and also activities that can assist ease isolation and clinical depression in elders and advertise senior wellness. Whether it's continuing a leisure activity or beginning a new one, it's good to have something to keep you enthusiastic and also eagerly anticipating on a daily basis.

Facts About Senior Isolation And The Effects Of Loneliness

You can weaved at residence by on your own when viewing TV, but it's likewise a fantastic social activity! Invite good friends over, have some tea as well as conversation as you weaved! Did you know that this fighting style was named the best exercise for elders by The Telegraph? This Chinese martial art is meant to combine increased muscle power and enhance heart function, making it a mild exercise for senior citizens to preserve health.

Weekly classes can come to be a regular and routines can provide a feeling of comfort. Dance is likewise a social task, so picking a senior-oriented course can aid with enhancing muscular tissue movement as well as wheelchair. They are in vogue right currently. There are whole lots of neighborhood choirs that are looking for individuals to join.

How Older Adults Can Recover From Loneliness

Vocal singing has positive emotional effects, it encourages the launch of endorphins which are the 'satisfied' chemicals in your mind! We have actually curated a few stand-out modern technology accessories that can bring benefits to senior health. Digital home assistant devices like Google House or Amazon Echo can aid with making day-to-day routines simpler with voice turned on modern technology.

Signs associated with anxiety may include sleeplessness and also stress and anxiety. Heavy coverings are typically 5-10% of an individual's body weight and also the sensation of it is having it press down versus you right into the bed, which has a calming impact.

Loneliness Among The Elderly

According to Healthline.com, 'The coverings likewise replicate deep stress touch (DPT), a type of treatment that utilizes firm, hands-on stress to reduce persistent stress and high levels of anxiety'. Heavy blankets have actually been used for autistic kids that experience sensory overload. Studies show heavy blankets lower anxiousness in youngsters as well as adults.

Heavy blankets aren't suitable for everybody, nevertheless. An elderly ought to consult their medical professional before acquiring one. Those with 'chronic health and wellness conditions, circulation or respiration issues, temperature level law problems or those that are recouping from surgical treatment are not encouraged to utilize a heavy blanket either'. The Institute on Aging (IOA) provides the Friendship Line, a 24/7, toll-free crisis phone line for individuals aged 60 years and above.

Loneliness In Older People

The IOA Relationship Line is the only program nationwide in the US that reaches out to lonesome, clinically depressed, separated, frail and/or self-destructive older adults. Their trained volunteers focus on providing a caring ear and having a friendly discussion with clinically depressed older adults.Look into excellent on-line resources for seniors, which covers education, work, volunteering and also more! Owning an animal advertises genuine love as well as friendship, providing elders a sense of purpose! It likewise encourages a much more energetic way of life as well as increased social communication.

Make time for social activities: It is very important to remain social. Your caregiver can accompany you to the regional elderly or community facility, routine brows through from your household as well as good friends and so on. HelpGuide includes that "clinically depressed individuals commonly feel much better when they're around others", so if your strategies to socialize are rejected, be gently persistent.

Ways To Overcome Your Aging Parent's Loneliness

If the clinical depression is persistent as well as severe, it's absolutely advised to see a psychiatrist or specialist, counselling along with prescribed medication may be the most effective way to aid with the chemical imbalance in your mind causing the depression. Comply with drug instructions: Make certain to have suggestions for drug with the right dosage as well as schedule.

We recognize that dealing with an aging member of the family can be extremely satisfying however it can be emotionally draining pipes as well as exhausting as well. Exploring employing an at home caregiver can permit your loved one to still live in the convenience of their own residence with some added assistance. The Family Caregiver Partnership had a report searching for that revealed 40-70% of family members caretakers show signs of depression.

Loneliness In The Elderly And How To Prevent It

This can make all the distinction worldwide. Our caretakers can supply transportation and accompaniment for your loved one to participate in courses as well as interact socially or merely friendship to have enjoyable food preparation a meal with each other.

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YSEALI Seeds: The Creability Movement

The Creability Movement – Bringing Together Creative Talents of Disability in Art

“The Creability Movement” is an initiative sparked by the premise that every individual is creative, regardless of their abilities. “Creability” is coined from the combination of the words “creative” and “ability”. This movement aims to bring together diverse creative talents and platform the disability in art, in Southeast Asia.

Ketemu Project and CoCreation Workshop will be delivering a pilot incubation program, supporting creative partnerships between disabled and enabled artists. The design of this pilot aligns creative innovation and cultural development with business strategies. The goal is to ultimately develop robust models with, and for, creative enterprises to develop disabled friendly partnerships, and to champion for inclusivity in the ASEAN creative economy ecosystems.

Creability Movement Team at Yayasan Cahaya Mutiara Ubud. Their main focus is to the build confidence of people with disabilities. Their members have numerous achievements in sports, such as in sporting events for weightlifting and rugby. We are happy to learn a lot about the accessibility from them and it was an inspiring visit for us.

Our Passion

We realized that people with disability are underrepresented within the workforce of the creative industry. Barriers for disabled people entering into creative careers or setting up their own creative business include physical and communication access, attitudes to disabled people, lack of positive role models and inaccessible training provision and poor recruitment procedures. This project expands the creative possibilities of collaboration and builds the capacities of individuals who have been working creatively with disabled communities.

Budi Agung Kuswara, founder of Ketemu Project hosted a sharing session with eight participants on our art programs and how it has benefited the members of Rumah Berdaya. 

Ketemu Project has worked with people living with schizophrenia, and we saw that there is a barrier for people with mental illness to entering the creative workspace. CoCreation in working with disabled participants have found that this problem is just as prevalent in Singapore. By developing a robust model together for creative enterprises to develop disabled friendly partnership and create an inclusive creative economy for people with disability.

Our Goals

The cooperation between artists of various localities, disabled and enabled creatives, will promote mutual understanding and increase diversity in the project’s target markets, furthering sustainable development goals. There will be new actions and processes that address barriers for disabled people’s inclusion in the workforce and market. This project will also pave the way for tourism and creative economy outcomes that fosters inclusive economic growth, social inclusiveness and the celebration of each community’s cultural assets.

Creability Movement team joined a talk with Bang Dzoel, a professional photographer with different abilities. He inspired us by showing despite of photography is a work that requires a body work, he proves that he could do the impossible.

Our Journey

The collaboration between Budi Agung Kuswara (Kabul) and Komang Sudiarta (Loster) is one of our success stories. Kabul and Loster were former classmates in high school. Upon completing high school, Kabul and Loster went their separate ways - Kabul pursued his study in art at Yogyakarta while Loster stayed in Bali to work in his studio to create keliki paintings. They were reunited when Kabul moved back to Bali and found out that Loster has a Schizophrenia. As they talked about their everyday life and reminisce the old times, those conversation were translated to a collaboration on making art. Kabul with his sun printing technique together with Balinese styled paintings, Keliki, miniature style made to authentic artworks. Their collaborative artworks were promoted on Kickstarter, to promote the cause of fighting against stigma towards people living with mental illness. Their collaboration also commissioned by Singapore Airlines as a part of their in-flight shop. This story is the one that inspired us to do the “The Creability Movement”. We hope by this story proves that everyone is creative, no matter of their abilities.

Kabul x Loster collaboration for Kickstarter and Singapore Airline commissions. They worked together on their artworks in Ketemu Project’s Studio, Bali.

Our goals are in enhancing the accessibility for people with disabilities entering into creative careers or setting up their own creative business. We plan to address areas including physical and communication access, attitudes to disabled people, lack of positive role models and inaccessible training provision and poor recruitment procedures. YSEALI Seeds will help us to achieve our goals as a supporting platform to spread our cause to various stakeholders.

Before YSEALI Seeds, we have accomplished to build a psychosocial rehabilitation based in community for people with schizophrenia named Rumah Berdaya. We are implementing the art for well-being program for the people with schizophrenia. By using art as a medium of expression, they are finding their own way when brushing their hands into the canvas. By their extraordinary way of thinking, one of their artworks has passed the curatorial selection for Festival Bebas Batas, a festival for people with disabilities in Indonesia, exhibited in Galeri Nasional Indonesia. We saw an improvement of the mental condition for our member of Rumah Berdaya.

  Creability Movement Team at Yayasan Bhakti Senang Hati. The organization works for social prosperity and give social service to people with diffabilities in Bali. They work on art and craft products to sustain their lives. They also provide a tour around Tabanan to the tourist by using customized motorcycle.

With YSEALI Seeds grant, we managed to do more research upon the people with different abilities who is struggling to be in a creative workspace. By doing the research we have a more comprehensive understanding of the people we work with, from people with mental disabilities to people with physical and sensory disabilities. We accomplished to find a mentor for The Creability Movement Team and curator to deepen the insight of artistic way between artists with different abilities.

Also, with YSEALI Seeds we are now able to engage other organizations across Southeast Asia that address disability and learn about the country or culturally specific challenges. We are also able to expand our product variety with the grant. YSEALI Seeds allows us to improve the quality of our products by working together with a product design team in Indonesia, RUPA Design. The program allows us to build a professionally diverse team with the engagement of a curator, mentors, designers and artists from across Southeast Asia.

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Contradictions

People are rarely ever what they seem to be.

I was rereading old messages and rediscovered a friend’s unupdated blog--the raw, messy, diary-ish type, left anonymous and therefore honest. You’d think she’s placid and relaxed, or at least that’s what she shows on the surface, but her personal writings reveal otherwise. There’s tension, anxiety, conviction, thoughtfulness, and I can almost imagine her a few years back, turning the thoughts over and over in her head behind closed doors.

It’s nice, how the surface is always smooth and one-dimensional, but what lies on the inside is another story altogether--as if people are mysteries to be unpacked, each layer peeled back until one realizes that the unknowing is endless. On the other hand, it’s not so nice when the opacity leads to us playing charades instead of actually talking to each other, or when somebody nearby commits suicide and we didn’t even have the foresight to suspect.

It took a while for it to sink in, though, that what we see isn’t the truth. People usually look fine, even happy and worry-free. They’re upbeat, they laugh at the right moments, they go about their duties well enough, their social media accounts give off a general air of pleasantness. From there, it’s easy to conclude that there’s something wrong with you for not feeling like that all of the time. But that’s an unfair comparison, because as someone cleverly worded it, you’re comparing your insides with other people’s outsides. You’re aware of your most glaring flaws and shortcomings, your insecurities, while all you see of most other people are their surface selves, the part of them that they curate and control because it’s infinitely up for inspection.

But really, everyone is so much more interesting than that. Everyone I’ve gotten to know on a closer level had problems to brood over, and were just as likely to break down crying or drink alcohol or send alarming messages about their current state of mind--all while looking okay from a distance. We’re human, and as pointed out by the immense epidemic of mental illness, contrary to wishes or expectations, we’re not biologically hardwired to be happy. Our brains were better adapted to prehistoric conditions when we really had to push hard on fight-or-flight to survive in the wild, but they’re scared out of their wits in today’s world. This isn’t an announcement of doom--all it means is that we need to let up on ourselves when we’re feeling crappy, and work on developing good habits and relaxing rather than getting anxious.

There’s also the fiction that we’re individuals, or rather unified selves, but we’re more like a cacophony of characters with different needs or--from a biological perspective--an ecosystem of microorganisms. It’s perfectly natural for us to have contradictory urges and to not make sense. We don’t operate on the kind of clean logic that ties together science or math; we are terribly inconsistent, even to ourselves.

That’s what’s so amazing about people, and why psychology is so fascinating, to the point that there are all these different frameworks for trying to understand and they all work, because the darn human psyche is just that multi-faceted.