Mental Health Across the Seas
Here it is, the elusive blog post about my trip to Sri Lanka. It's been a long time coming and I'm excited to finally share the experiences I had. My original plan was to summarise the most memorable moments of my trip. That proved impossible because it would include the entirety of the time there, it was all just too good. With my last post about mental health being such a success, I decided this post would be better served sharing the real reasons I was there - on a volunteer placement to promote positive mental health. What better to write a post about, than everything I learnt about it while over there :) I do, however, want to share the highlights with you all in sooome way, so I decided that the best option was to create a video. If you make it all the way through this long post, the video will be at the end! The educational aspect of the trip was really interesting to me. I have been teaching about depression, stress, and suicide in schools across Oregon for the pas