When anxiety whispers，let's paint its portrait,seeing is the beginning of healing.On the 10th of October, the 34th World Mental Health Day, a special event called "Living with Anxiety" was held on campus. At noon on that day, the art square was transformed into five creative areas, where teachers and students explored their inner emotions together and learned to coexist peacefully with anxiety.
Emotional Plane Art Exhibition: When Anxiety Takes Shape
The emotional graphic works created by current students or alumni from our school's art department vividly depict a wide range of complex emotions such as anxiety, joy, struggle, and sadness. The core of the exhibition lies in the understanding and expression of anxiety, helping students learn how to confront, reconcile, and coexist peacefully with their anxiety.
Colorful and Varied Handprint Wall: Perception = Healing
Six types of acrylic paints correspond to six levels of anxiety. Students and teachers freely express their inner emotions, select the corresponding paints, and leave their palm prints on the white canvas. Perceiving and acknowledging one's inner emotions is a key means to resolve internal emotional conflicts. Facing one's anxiety and unease positively and calmly; the process of clearly perceiving one's inner world is the process of understanding and affirming oneself. In the end, what remains on the white canvas are not traces of anxiety, but colorful palm prints and rich and delicate emotions.
Sensory Graffiti Area: Multi-channel Emotional Expression
Using 8*8 cm as a unit, various types of brushes are provided, along with materials that offer sensory experiences, such as candies of different flavors and cards. After being stimulated through taste or vision, the students create paintings on the square drawing paper and express their current emotions. This activity is not only about expressing emotions through colors, but also about guiding the students on how to healthily express their feelings and emotions in their hearts.
Science Corner: Understanding Anxiety and Living in Harmony with It
The science education area is composed of KT boards and provides detailed explanations about the knowledge related to anxiety. It covers what anxiety is and the positive ways to combat it. Through popularization of science， it guides students to learn the wisdom of "living with anxiety" - not fearing anxiety, accepting it, and growing vigorously in the midst of anxiety.
Emotional short film viewing: Respecting the diversity of emotions
A short emotional film edited and shot by students was shown. Different scenes were interspersed throughout, as if different emotions were woven into life. Everyone's viewing experience was different, and the emotional fluctuations stemmed from their diverse interpretations of the scenes. Respecting others' emotions and accepting our differences is an important lesson in cultivating tolerance.
After the event, all the display boards and stands were moved to the art building. The handprint board and the creative grid board are available for students to continue filling and creating in the following week, continuing our "emotional composition".
Strong willpower, an optimistic personality, an optimistic mood, and the ability to adapt to emergencies are all effective remedies for relieving anxiety. This year's theme of World Mental Health Day is "Everyone has the right to mental health services".
Our school's this activity is precisely to make the concept that "there is no need to be ashamed to seek medical treatment when you have a mental illness" deeply rooted in people's minds， and to contribute to the construction of a mental health support system.
When anxiety whispers,
we depict it, coexist with it.
All the emotional fluctuations in life are
our vivid and rich life experiences.
