LISTEN 2.0

(Lets be aware of depression)

SCOPH CIMSA UGM

Depression is a mental health disorder experienced by many people in the world, including in Indonesia. This mental health disorder could happen at any age but is commonly experienced by teenagers. Approximately, there are 264 million people per year in 2019 suffering from depression. This is not a small number, and it means that depression is a severe problem that should get much attention to solve.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant effect on our lives. One of them affects mental health. During the pandemic, the number of mental health disorders, including depression cases in Indonesia, increased significantly. Despite these high numbers of depression cases, many people do not realize the importance of mental health. In response to this situation, CIMSA UGM created a project called LISTEN 2.0.

LISTEN 2.0 is an activity held by SCOPH CIMSA UGM to raise awareness about how important our mental health is and focuses on the topic "Self-Love Matters." This project consists of 3 sessions, air campaign, webinar, and social experiment. 

On-air campaign session volunteers helped us to share Instagram's story about self-love using their Instagram account. Next, the webinar session started with a pre-test, followed by psychologist Irma Gustiana A. S.Psi, M.Psi, that presented why we should love ourselves and a presentation by Vice Coordinator of Into Light Indonesia, Sylvia Andriana, about why we should not do a self-diagnosis.

Then, a sharing session with a mental health survivor, Rityasiwi Gita, a Q & A session, and a focused group discussion where we collaborated with CPMH (Center for Public Mental Health) UGM for supervision ended with a post-test. At the very end of this session, chosen participants were given a chance to do counseling with a psychologist, hoping they can feel better about what bothers them lately. Finally, in the social experiment session, we used Ome TV as our platform. There, volunteers pretended to have a problem related to mental health, and they would see how people reacted to those things. After that, volunteers introduced themselves, appreciated if those people reacted positively, and volunteers also gave education about self-love. 

We hope that our activities could help people understand more about the importance of self-love in achieving good mental health, love themselves better, and help people around them suffer from depression.