Due to a rise in depression and death by suicide in the United States, Laquey High School students participated in Mental Health Awareness Week in October after many students expressed a desire to show their awareness for their struggling peers.
Mental health is critical in every working community. Mental health impacts the working world, and depending upon the mental health of an area, the levels of productivity or motivation can be lower than needed for a work environment.
Studies show that 23 in every 100,000 people die from suicide.
During the awareness week, student council (STUCO) members set up different events every day to give the students ample opportunities to show their mental health awareness.
On Oct. 3, STUCO member Hannah Thier passed out lime green ribbons for students and faculty to wear around school grounds while the week progressed.
On Oc. 4, STUCO members Hannah Thier and Makenna Miller passed out printed pictures of shoes as a part of the “Walk In My Shoes” event that ran that Tuesday. Each student got the chance to color their own set of shoes to hang on the walls of the hallways in the building, each with the ability to put three empowering words or phrases about themselves, so that other students could see the way others thought comparatively.
On Oct. 5, students were highly encouraged to take pictures with their lime green ribbons and post them on social media with the hashtag #EachMindMatters, to get the word out about the awareness.
On Oct. 6, students received post-it notes in the commons area of the high school, all with the task of writing one positive comment on it for the student body to see. They then gave those post-it notes to Thier to be hung on the walls alongside their shoes from the previous day.
On Oct.7, students were asked to wear lime green to show awareness in a bright and colorful way.
Wearing the lime green and participating in the activities of the week helped students raise the awareness of mental health both among themselves and among others. The students have already started to request a second Mental Health Awareness Week for the year to come, after the success of this year’s Awareness week.
The students are hoping for another week of colorful support and awareness when the next Mental Health Awareness Week rolls through.
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