Does our concept belong with the Brief?
We want to change the public’s opinion of Postnatal Depression, therefore enforcing women to be more open and help them discover that talking and sharing their experiences is important to them and to others. We want to help create a Happiness in general when people come to see what we have achieved in this Mental Health week long project. ‘Happy Chappies’ also want to help the NHS with our campaign.
How does it help prevent mental health problems?
We want to help communication through a child’s perspective, by using drawings and scattering them around the community. We want to change the public’s opinion of Postnatal depression, making it a less of a taboo subject. We aim to cut down medication costs because we feel that the Doctors are just shoving medication down these women’s throats when there are other possibilities out there in the world. Through our street art part of our service we want to make it more personal to each individual, helping remove the stigma that people have for this mental health problem by making them aware that this is actually happening and people class this as normal as it is so common. With the street art or tile drawing we are creating a bonding experience with the parents and children, making them be out in the fresh air. The children’s drawing will be bright and colourful which in itself will create a capturing happiness, while reassuring the parents that everything will be okay eventually and everyone’s future is bright and colourful and most importantly happy.
How does that design embed positive mental health activities as a part of our daily lives?
How can we make it more physical? Well its something that we can install in peoples homes and out in the community. We have enlarged children’s drawings to create an advertisement campaign, we were also thinking of involving some family photographs of our own families as the women our families have also gone through Postnatal Depression or a Mental Health Problem.
Do you understand what the key elements are as a team?
– Optimism
– Freedom from stress & anxiety
– Openness & Flexibility
– Problem orientation
– Individual accountability
Our aim is to achieve a public display of Postnatal Depression awareness, people dont talk about their experiences as they believe it is not to be known or talked about. In our display we have children’s drawings and quotes from their disscussion of ‘What makes them happy?’ There are tiles with their drawings so that people can take them home and have them installed in their homely environment so that everyday they walk past or look at these beautiful drawings it brings a little reminder of happiness in their lives.
We are campaigning to advertise happiness around Dundee and to encourage more people to do it around the world. We want our service to stop people in their journeys for a minute to notice these delightful gestures placed in their community and public areas, which are usually stressful and very busy, just to put a smile on peoples faces.
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