Weel 4

Colour(s) that represent Mental Health: Rainbow

I think that Mental Health could be described as rainbow because their is many different moods that everyone has. Mental health isn't just the bad things like depression but also the bright happy mood which in colours would be yellow or fluro colours. When your sad you have colours such as black do represent the mood. 

A Symbol that represents Mental Health: Ying Yang

This symbol represents two sides, and they are both opposite. One representing good the other representing bad but in each section their is a small circle that shows their is a little bit of each in them (the white section has a black circle inside it).

An Image That Represents Mental Health: Rose

I believe a rose is a good image because it has a strong emotion to it and the flower is so delicate. What I mean by delicate is that mental health is all in your mind and once you affect it, it can change completely (from mentally healthy to unhealthy).

Week 3B

Resilience means in the dictionary 'ability to recover readily from illness, depression, adversity, or the like; buoyancy.' My meaning for resilience is to bounce back from something. It could be the examples in the dictionary definition or it could be something completely different but we all have had to show resilience in one way or another. One form of resilience is when we have to accept grief. When I experience grief, I tend to be one my own, make origami, bake cakes and kick a soccer or AFL ball with my Dad at the park. When I play sport, it makes me forget a bit about my problem and enjoy the sport that I'm playing and that is why I love the sport so much. Here is a YouTube video that I believe shows resilience.

                                                                                                 

Week 3A

                         

In My Girl the movie, Vada (the main character), has a life of which she is finding her identity.  A friend of Vada, Thomas J, tries to help Vada find her self identity. Thomas J. also had problems with being different (looked different and was smart), this caused him to be bullied at school. They become best friends, they hang out together by going on adventures, bike riding and playing to fill up their afternoons. In the movie, Vada's father (Harry Sultenfuss) a widow, ignores her daughter it is only when his girlfriend/wife (throughout the movie) tells him to stop ignoring her and talk. When Thomas J. dies, Vada experiences loss/grief for the second time, the first losing her mother. Her first react was denial followed by her staying in her room for days to grieve. She cried for a couple of days and distanced herself from everybody and doesn't feel hungary. When Vada starts to understand what has happened, she comes out of her room and goes to the funeral. She also cries there too, acting as if he were real. She soon starts talking to people about it. To help Vada get over the grief, she wrote a poem for the writing class and read it out.

What Vada gets out from her experiences are mixed. At first she didn't like the idea of her Dad getting married and then got used to it and like her step-mother. She also became friends with another girl and rode bikes around to fill up the afternoon this means that Vada learnt move on without Thomas J. Last, she repairs her relationship with her Dad and spends more time with him.

      

Week 2

I believe everybody has experienced loss at some point in life. Through family, pets or even items that you have a connection to. I have personally felt grief through losing a pet. I didn't find out until the next morning when I saw her in the front yard. I now a beautiful dog which I adore.

Most commonly, the following are 7 stages of greif. They may not be in this order but they are:

1) Shock and Denial-not believing what has happened


2) Pain and Guilt-Feeling the loss


3) Anger and Barganing-Wondering if it could have been prevented and getting angry and things and people because of what has happened


4) "Depression"(Reflection, Loneiness etc.)- Starting to realise that you can't change what has happened and feeling loss for it.


5) The Upward Turn- Life starting to adjust to the loss and things getting more calmer after experiencing the above


6) Reconstruction and Working Through- Your mind to work properly again not thinking as much about the loss


7) Acceptance and Hope- Accepting what has happened and not being able to change the situation. Awful pain of the loss will start to go and thinking of other things might help you get through it.

Week 1

VS

On Saturday (5th May), I was watching the Sydney Swans (AFL) fully decked out in my Swannies gear and I was looking foward to watching the Adelaide Crows getting smashed by my team when I realised that we were losing the game. At the first quarter I was thinking in the back of my head that this might not be a victory for the Swans because there were losing by more than 20 points. By the 2nd quarter they caught up. This is the Swannies I wanted to see! We weren't winning but had shorten the point difference by alot, 3 points infact. Finally, yay, yay, yay, yay, yay. We were ahead by the end of the 3rd quarter 79-72. Lewis Jetta and his classic way of playing with the AFL ball gave us a couple of goals. In the final quarter, Adam Goodes (Sydney Swans Co-Captain/Legend) went down with a hamsting injury with minutes to go. I was proud of what he did on the day because he kicked four goals. In the end, Lewis Jetta had his chance to shine in the last minutes of the game but got a behind. The Sydney Swans had there first lost of the season, and only losing by 5 points. I was devasted. I really wanted for them to win because of their valient effort that they put into the game.  I would think that the Swans players would be dissapointed with the result but I will be looking foward to when they get back on track (and win games). :(

A dissapointing loss to the Adelaide Crows.