2. I want to focus my project largely on suicide and mental illness awareness.
3. http://people.com/celebrity/project-semicolon-empowers-people-who-suffer-from-depression/
The project was started in 2013 by Amy Bleuel, who was inspired by her own personal struggle with depression, mental illness, suicide attempts and the loss of her own father to suicide. She decided to turn the semicolon into a symbol of hope and love for those who were struggling.
https://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2017/03/31/project-semicolon-founder-amy-bleuel-dies-at-31/
Sadly, Bleuel lost her own battle with depression last Thursday, March 23. She was 31. The hope shared by Project Semicolon’s founder is captured by the organization’s reminder, “Your story isn’t over.” The semicolon represents the continuation of your life after struggling with thoughts of suicide and death, which are a common component of clinical depression.
https://projectsemicolon.com
As the 10th leading cause of death in the United States and the second leading cause of death for people aged 15 to 34, suicide is a serious public health problem.
Each year in the United States, more than 40,000 people die by suicide (one every 15 minutes) and 1 million people attempt suicide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
4. There is not really an opposing group to people not wanting people to end their lives. The main negative force from people is the stigma behind depression and these other mental illnesses. We look down on these people as if they are a problem, and it has become normal to judge socially and also in our health care to get places to help.https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/06/25/stigma-of-mental-illness/9875351/
Stigma against the mentally ill is so powerful that it's been codified for 50 years into federal law, and few outside the mental health system even realize it. This systemic discrimination, embedded in Medicaid and Medicare laws, has accelerated the emptying of state psychiatric hospitals, leaving many of the sickest and most vulnerable patients with nowhere to turn.
5. Shawn Cross took the online trend of Inktober and turned it into a statement where each day of October he did a ink drawing of a different form of mental illness. I am inspired by these sketches because along with the semicolon they are simplistic and are not meant to take a long time to draw. They get the point across by expressing the fear and turmoil quickly.
Lindsay Carter expresses how she deals with her invisible illness in her tattoos. Carter is one of 5 artists that make up Ink Visible, who has a goal to visualize these disabilities that are invisible. Im extremely inspired by how she wants to fix the stigma and show the feeling through a design meant to be put your body like the semicolon.
great start! thanks!
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