Our animation is based on suicide, this is a touchy subject as it has affected the majorette of people across the world as well as the UK in 2017 the suicide rates in the UK was 727.1 deaths a year roughly. There are over 100,000 deaths each year in different regions.
Mental health affects the brain in many ways, we will be taking away the physical health issues like epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, and multiple sclerosis etc, we will be talking about hidden mental heath issues. The most common cause of mental heath taking over your brain completely is negative thoughts, this can be lead to depression-one of the main suspects of mental health in your brain. The anti-depressant industry are making over £266.6m of its overall £9.2bn to help people. Most people suffer with Depression and Anxiety, this is usually caused by being bullied or have stage fright in school.
Mental health can be coped in many ways, one of the worst is substance abuse. This is one of the most common ways to slip deeper into your depression. The bigger the issue the more likely it is for that person to commit suicide. As many as 15% of people with bipolar disorder will die by their own hands, half will attempt to, and nearly 80% will contemplate doing so. Bipolar is a more serious issue of mental health that people don’t know how to handle, it goes from having high highs to low lows to the point that you may end up by committing suicide.
Having a clear understanding of suicide and mental disorders it helps me as i already know what i wanted to do as soon as we picked suicide, the story board that i managed to do we only did half of what i put down, the majorette was changed. With knowing that more LGBTQ+ are more likely to take their own lives then anyone with a mental health problem, even though it is debatable.
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