Since the covid-19 outbreak pandemic, a lot has gone awry. So much uncertainty and panic and anxiety. Our mental health has never been so globally challenged, it’s now imperative to normalize conversations about mental health. Our founder in this video shares a summary she made after attending a webinar on mental health in crisis with Dr. Vikram Patel
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Mental Health in Crisis with Dr. Vikram Pattel
A. There are 5 category of people who are a main concern during this Covid-19 outbreak pandemic especially as far as their mental health is concerned:
1) Economically dispossesed people;
2) Old people – who will have to battle loneliness and hopelessness;
3) Young people – who are the highest risk people for developing mental health problems;
4) People who are affected by Covid-19, the sick and the caregivers; and
5) People already living with a mental illness.
He explained his concerns in detail and did not hesitate to pull from personal experience.
B. How do you manage your mental health through it all?
1) Acknowledge your mental health in the same way you acknowledge your physical healt and be self-aware;
2) Accept it and understand what you can and can’t do;
3) Adapt – professionally and in daily life. Certainty and structure is what keeps going. Keep a routine – do things we love – the best we can
4) Protection – of our mental health especially from misinformation and too much information;
5) Be constantly aware of negative thought;
6) Show compassion and altruism to others around us – show kindness and goodness – care for others, stay in touch with people especially those particularly at the risk of being lonely and isolated in this period.
C. Coping mechanisms
1) Healthy ones like reading, writing, drawing, singing, dancing, meditation, yoga, breathing exercises.
2) Avoid unhealthy coping mechanism like alcohol and substance abuse, risky behavior and careless thought patterns.
3) Use this time to built a strong foundation for your mental health and how to support others too through this crisis and many other crisis to come in the future.
D. The way forward for mental health awareness and practice
1) Telemedicine – Therapy online. It is very important mental health providers take this seriously because in the current confinement nobody can go to any therapist’s office for example.
2) We also have to review what productivity is and how much pressure we put on ourselves – or let others put on us.
It was a wonderful webinar with over 500 people connected from all over the world. Indeed there is hope.
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H4AB becomes a Netzkraft participant
Our Organization Hope for the Abused and Battered was last week made a participant of the global Netzkraft movement. Check out our profile on their website right here.
The Netzkraft Movement is a multidisciplinary, international network of more than 3600 organizations throughout the world who are socially, politically, ecologically or spiritually involved. The participants offer mutual support and work towards common objectives:
– An international body for peace, human rights and environment within
the United Nations
– Sustainable eco-social economic development
– Decentralization of political power
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For more on the Netzkraft movement do visit their website and why not join the movement as an organization too?
How are you coping with the Covid-19 confinement?
Our founder shares some insight into how she is coping with the Covid-19 outbreak and what she thinks can help us much more than fear can. Being and staying mindful, as well as making healthy choices is the best way to go during these tough times.
Encouragement and message of Hope from our founder for mothers
The Covid-19 outbreak pandemic is probably hitting mothers hard. They have to make sure they and their entire families are safe and healthy and it is definitely challenging. That’s what our founder as a mother of 3 boys has realized, and she in this video seeks to encourage all other mothers the world over so they know they are not alone.
Covid-19 disease outbreak and our mental health
COVID-19 and Mental Health: our founder Barrister Marie Abanga shares how her PTSD has been triggered and how she is coping and hoping to encourage others too.
Let’s Talk About Mental Health with our Founder
Mental health matters Let’s dare to talk about it
Our founder Barrister Marie Abanga (aka MAG), will be live on the Step Out Show on Canal 7 with the indefatiguable host Ibrahim Nguh on the 18th of March 2020, to lead discussions on Mental Health passing through what our organization Hope for the Abused and Battered (H4AB) is doing to raise awareness, sensitize and advocate to make mental health matter in our society. We have to talk about it because many more than we can imagine are affected by mental health challenges and mental illnesses.
Talking about mental health shouldn’t be scary or taboo because we all have minds and need to take care of those minds so that they don’t fall sick. Taking care of our mental health just like we do (or are supposed to do) with our physical health, involves habits, emotions, thoughts, life forces, desires and intentions so that we stay in a state of good mental alertness to do all what we want to do while we live.
That is what she will be looking at during the show and will shed light on the AAF (Awareness, Advocacy, and Facilitation) project for Idps (Internally displaced persons) in Douala which is partially funded by the ARDF grant of the US Embassy.
She is excited to catch many of you live, ans to answer all your questions sent in before or during the show.
Do not suffer in silence;
Reach out, cry out, there is hope.
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I am generation of equality : Our Founder reflects some aspects of her Womanhood
I am Generation of Equality : Realizing women’s rights.
Learning and sharing with the next generation is a good way forward. And so we were happy to be invited once more to the American Language Center in Douala, Cameroon to talk with the Access kids. Our topic on the eve of the International Women’s day commemoration was: Providing an enabling environment for effective gender equality/equity.
It was very exciting to know what the kids thought about all this, and to share with them what we also know about it all too. We looked at the keywords in the discussions, what it all meant, why we needed more enabling environments, and what we could each do to enable such an environment – whichever one we looked at.
The kids were happy to participate and break up onto clusters for the main activity on coming up with what could be done. Each group then shared its findings with the whole class through a leader they appointed. They gladly filled the forms we brought for their evaluation, and pledge making.
We hope to be invited again – as requested by these adorable kids.
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