Mental health blackboard content

The content that is suitable for a mental health blackboard report should have the core idea of ​​"doing not need to be lofty, but allowing people passing by to catch their emotions and get useful methods at a glance." Don't use obscure professional terms, and don't talk about empty truths. If everyone can read it and think, "Oh, I'm not the only one like this", then it meets the standard.

I have done more than a dozen issues of this kind of blackboard newspaper for schools and communities, and I have made a lot of mistakes. At first, I copied the textbook and put the "Ten Standards of Mental Health" and "Clinical Manifestations of Anxiety Disorders" neatly drawn. As a result, after a week, no one except the cleaning lady took a second look. After adjusting their thinking, some people slowly stopped to watch, and some even took out their mobile phones to take pictures of the content.

Don't mention it, some residents have raised controversy with me before: Should we encourage everyone to express all their negative emotions? In fact, there is no unified standard answer in the academic community - psychoanalytically oriented counselors will feel that long-term suppression of emotions will turn into inward attacks. If it is stored for a long time, problems will easily arise. It is best to find someone you trust to complain. ； However, cognitive-behavioral counselors will also remind you not to say the same negative thing to different people over and over again, which will only aggravate the negative emotions. Instead, it is better to spend 3 minutes writing the matter on paper to figure out exactly what part makes you uncomfortable, and then decide whether to say it or not. There is no problem with either method, just choose the one you are comfortable with. I usually write both views in small letters in the corner, so everyone can choose what they need.

I usually add a palm-sized "Emotional First Aid Station" when making blackboard reports. I write down a few small, zero-cost methods that I and my counselor friends have personally tested and found to be useful: For example, "Breathe through the nose for 4 seconds - hold for 4 seconds - exhale for 6 seconds. If you are scolded by the teacher in class / scolded by the leader at work, use it for half a minute." "If your mind is in a mess and you can't stop, just touch your wrist for 10 seconds and feel the beating of your pulse. It can quickly pull you away from the worries in your mind." There is no need to talk about the professional term "mindfulness adjustment". Everyone can understand it at a glance and use it.

Oh, by the way, don't write words like "You can conquer everything as long as you are optimistic." It will only make people who are really stuck in emotions feel even more useless. Instead, it can expose all the little "misunderstandings": for example, "People who are not cheerful will not suffer from depression. The proportion of smiling and depressed people is getting higher and higher now. If the person around you is always funny The person who everyone is laughing at suddenly says he is tired, don’t think he is joking. “It’s not hypocritical to be in a bad mood. If you can’t sleep well, can’t eat, or have no interest in the things you liked before for more than two weeks in a row, don’t force yourself to do it. See a school psychologist/doctor at a community psychological service station. It’s the same as taking medicine for a cold or fever. There’s nothing shameful about it.” When I was working on that issue in junior high school, a little girl came to me after reading it and said that she always felt that her emotions were wrong and that she was too fragile. She only dared to go to the psychology teacher after reading it. She got a lot better afterwards.

What’s interesting is that every time I make a blackboard report, I leave half a blank space, label it “emotional message board,” and put a stack of post-it notes for everyone to write whatever they want without leaving their names. The last time I did it in middle school, the message board was full of posts at the end. Some wrote, "I'm afraid my parents will scold me if I failed in the monthly exam this time." Next, someone wrote, "I finished last in the exam last time. What are you afraid of?" and others wrote, "My hamster died. I'm so sad." The following is Wai Wai Wei followed several messages: "My previous hamster also went to Zhixing. He must have eaten a lot of seeds there." The whole board looked messy, and even the layout was not straight, but it was more effective than any neat blackboard newspaper I had made before.

In fact, the promotion of mental health should not be a high-level preaching, but should be down-to-earth. The content you write can catch even one person's emotions and make a person who originally planned to cope with it want to seek professional help. This blackboard newspaper is not in vain.