SEAN CAMPBELL'S MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAMS

Sean Campbell is a professional speaker and mental health advocate who addresses thousands of people each year, promoting mental health awareness and positive mental hygiene, and reducing the stigma associated with mental illness. Sean's programs have been effective with various audiences: elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, universities, adult groups, mental health professional staff trainings and parent groups. Sean works with schools and organizations to develop tailored seminars, programs, and presentations that meet the specific needs of each unique audience.

Here are some of the major points of discussion included in Sean's programs. While browsing, please consider how these themes can be effectively applied to any audience, since these are themes that affect everyone.

Stress and adversity cannot prevent us from finding happiness and success in our lives.
Sean discusses his upbringing – living in a home led by a father who had alcoholism and bipolar disorder, and discusses the emotional, legal and financial issues he faced growing up. Sean also discloses his experiences coping with depression and anxiety, and then explains the coping strategies he used to blossom into a happy, healthy, successful and productive young adult.

We need to become personally accountable for every thought we have.
Listening to yourself – monitoring your feelings, thoughts and emotions on a consistent, daily basis and recasting negative thoughts is of paramount importance in maintaining positive mental hygiene.

What specific strategies can we use to maintain positive mental hygiene?
Sean discusses the wide array of stress-management tactics he implements into his daily agenda: positive visualization, personalized organization, self-evaluation, exercise, proper diet, nutrition and sleep, and more.

We must not back down to the perils of stigma and negative labeling, but instead work hard to create our own unique labels.
How can we combat stigma? First, we must first have a fact-based, not stereotype-based, understanding of mental health and mental illness. Then we must persist to be open and honest with those we interact with, and devote ourselves toward wellness. Acknowledging his own depression and anxiety, Sean discusses how he refused to identify with the labels associated with mental illness such as "troubled", "crazy", etc., and worked hard to proudly create his own labels, such as author, speaker, entrepreneur, and scholar, but more importantly, role model, friend, best friend, go-to guy, good brother, good son and godfather.

Help is always available. Obtaining help in a time of need is the responsible action to take.
There is help available for everyone. Sean discusses his positive experiences with counseling and recommends counseling to each individual, regardless of circumstances, because each person has stress to deal with and can benefit from a positive medium to sort out stress.

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