1. Its OK to Talk!!
By Siobhán Brady

2. What is Mental Health?
• Feeling good about ourselves
• Being positive
• Being about to work effectively
• Being able to carry out daily activities
• Being resilient
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3. A Mental Health problem
• When our beliefs, thoughts or feelings affect
our day to day activities in a negative way
• People tend to feel and think in a different
way from how they usually do when they are
experiencing a mental health problem
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4. Mental Health problems
• Depression
• Anxiety
• OCD
• Eating Disorders
• Schizophrenia
• PTSD
• Psychosis
• And there are many more
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5. Stigma
• Many people think stigma is just associated
with just mental illness.
• It is associated with mental health in general.
• Too many people do not want to talk about
mental health because it is such a taboo
subject.
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6. See Change
• See Change is a national programme working
to raise awareness and reduce stigma of
mental health.
• They are working with a number of different
partners to make more people aware.
• They are working towards creating a positive
attitude towards mental health.
• #makearipple www.seechange.ie
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7. Think Big
• Think Big is a programme designed by O2 and
Headstrong to enable young people to do
projects in their community that make a
difference to young peoples' mental health.
• www.o2thinkbig.ie
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8. Label jars not people
• Mental health yeah that's right we are all
about promoting positive mental health among
young and old.
• Not many people talk about mental health, it’s
a taboo subject and we want to change that.
• We want to reduce the stigma, help charities
associated with mental heath and we want to
MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
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9. • We are a group of five teenagers from
Celbridge.
• We are working in conjunction with Think Big
Ireland who is going to support us and help
make our project a success.
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10. Make a difference
• Make a difference in your local area by
making a ripple
• Spread the word about mental health in your
local area by talking to your friends and
family is making a ripple
• Do something you feel comformtable with to
get the conversation started about mental
health.
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11. Need a hand?
• If you ever need to have a chat to someone
there are many places offering support such
as:
• Samaritans - 1850 60 90 90
• Aware- 1890 303 302
• Console-01 8685232
• Belong- 01 670 6223
• Teen Between- 1800 303191
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