#13 - Mental Health Awareness Week with the Mental Health Collective (featuring Barbara Šafarić and JD Rolfes)

In this episode of the Offspring Podcast, Srinath and Niko talk with Barbara Šafarić and Julian D. Rolfes (JD) from Mental Health Collective of the Max Planck Society (MPS). They are a grass roots movement to bring awareness to mental health issues within the MPS and try to help dealing with them.  Especially, with the frightening results from the PhDnet survey, the issue of mental health is becoming more important than ever. In our discussion, we try to figure out how to deal with mental health on a personal level but also if people around you are affected. Furthermore, we hope to bring awareness to the different institutions that can help you on a professional level. If you or someone you know might be affected by mental health issues, it is nothing to be ashamed of but rather something that needs to be addressed properly. 

The Collective started out in 2019 and organized a Max-Planck-wide Mental Health Awareness Week.  This year's campaign for Mental Health Awareness will take place from October 5th to October 9th, 2020. More details can be found here: https://www.phdnet.mpg.de/events-and-activities/mental-health

Please use the following information to reach out for help:

EMAP: https://www.mpikg.mpg.de/6106370/emap-beratungsangebot-fuer-mitarbeitende

Hotline with Telefon Seelsorge: 0800-1110111 or 0800-1110222, https://www.telefonseelsorge.de/

Everything about EMAP (for MPI employees only): https://max.mpg.de/Service/Beratungsangebote/Pages/EMAP_EN.aspx

Top lines of help in Germany: https://www.mytherapyapp.com/de/blog/telefonseelsorge-rufnummern

Mental Health Collective:  Twitter: @mpg_mhc  Email: [email protected]

Offspring Blog Post: https://www.phdnet.mpg.de/126817/2020-03-27_covid_eo?c=22833

If you have any comments, suggestion or questions, please feel free to reach out to us at the following email: [email protected]

Please feel free to check out the Offspring-Blog where we publish articles  on a regular basis. https://www.phdnet.mpg.de/offspring-blog 

Intro - Outro music composed by Srinath Ramkumar: https://twitter.com/srinathramkumar 

Pre-Intro jingle composed by Gustavo Carrizo: https://www.instagram.com/carrizo.gus/?hl=es 

You can follow the hosts of this podcast on Twitter here: 

Srinath Ramkumar: https://twitter.com/srinathramkumar 

Nikolai Hoermann: https://twitter.com/HoermannNikolai 

Allison Lewis: https://twitter.com/OswaldsMom 

Until Next Week, Stay Safe and Stay Healthy - Physically and Mentally