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(Embrace and Love Yourself)

SCOPH CIMSA UMM

The COVID-19 pandemic has a very heavy impact on various aspects, from health, economy, politics, and also a person's psychological condition. Psychologically, the PSBB policy which requires us to move from home is very influential on the saturation of increasing one's stress, this increase in stress levels can be built from boredom and the process of adapting to new habits in activity. Based on the results of a survey released by the Association of Indonesian Mental Medicine Specialists (PDKJI), during the COVID-19 pandemic, as many as 64.3 percent of the 1,522 respondents had psychological problems or depression after conducting independent online examinations regarding their mental health.

Routines, work, and tasks can cause stress to a person. This condition is better known as burnout syndrome. Burnout is a response to work and excess tasks in the form of physical, emotional, and mental fatigue. In 2019, WHO has defined burnout in the 11^th Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) by describing it as chronic stress due to work that cannot be handled properly.

There are many factors that contribute to burnout such as overthinking, insecure, and being too perfectionist. If this is left unchecked, burnout can lead to concentration problems, loss of motivation, a negative outlook, and severe stress or even depression which can lead to suicide. This condition is commonly referred to ‘mental health illness’ which makes sufferers want to be released from the burden borne by ending their life, according to data from the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2018 one Indonesian died of suicide every hour. Seeing this condition, people need to increase their understanding of these matters.

Prior to the implementation of the ‘Embrace and Love Yourself’ project, we distributed a questionnaire about how well people understand about mental health. With the aim of knowing how much the knowledge of members and the public are about mental health, knowing preferences from mental health activities and measuring the level of public interest in mental health topics. Their answers will be considered the theme to be discussed.

We have three series of activities to commemorate world mental health day, namely an air campaign, training and webinars. This project started on October 1^st, 2020 by making several preparations, including distributing questionnaires to CIMSA UMM members and the general public for 5 days and preparing for the peak of the event, namely the webinar. On October 10^th, 2020 the air campaign concept was explained to be disseminated through the @cimsaumm InstaStory. The air campaign that we uploaded about footage about burnout syndrome and depression was added with voice videos from the answers of survivors who were able to overcome feelings of fatigue and depression. Then on October 23^rd, we conducted training with PHL to prepare members for the next day during the webinar.

The webinar takes a specific topic according to the results of the questionnaire that we have distributed, namely about ‘The Medical Perspective on The Relationship Between Overthinking and Mental Exhaustion to Burnout Syndrome and Depression’ which was presented by our first speaker, dr. Marintik Ilahi, Sp. KJ, the representative of the RSU UMM psychiatrist and about ‘Awareness, Prevention, And Social Support’ presented by the second speaker, namely Mario Carl Joseph, S.Psi., M.Psi., Psychology representative of the HIMPSI psychologist.

The packaging of this activity was packaged in an attractive manner so that the members of CIMSA UMM and the public were enthusiastic and hoped they could understand the message of this campaign. From a series of activities, we can become a forum for members of CIMSA UMM and the community about the importance of mental health.