An analysis of how Vancouver views the Downtown Eastside and how mental health issues affect that community. Lead by Tobias Faehndrich and Liam Blakely.

Thanks to the CBC for letting us use some of their clips, Free Sounds, Fountain, Sam Wieler, and Caleb O’Brien for letting us use your music, Jean Swanson and Ben Garner for insightful interviews, and most of all, all the people on the downtown Eastside who shared their stories.

Edited using Adobe Premiere Pro CS6.

There are times we experience joy and happiness, but there are things we must struggle to maintain these emotions. My partner and I will be talking about depression. We will be sharing our thoughts and personal experiences of dealing with depression with the support of other people giving us a better insight of it. We do not wish for those who are listening to our audio feel negative but utilize it as a way to motivate yourself and countering depression. We hope you enjoy this recording.

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Also special thanks to those who were interviewed in this podcast and our sources for making this Podcast happen.

We decided to dig deeper and get out of our comfort zone by emailing psychologists specialized in Anxiety and interviewing them. The explanation about the topic this time is a lot more precise, scientific-based, and is back up with many statistics and careful research. The psychologists also shared their insights and experience throughout their career life.

This time, we interviewed Mrs. Nicholson, our Psychology teacher, and Mr. Johnston, grade 12’s counsellor, about the same set of questions that we used to interview random people in the last episode. They gave lots of awesome insights and experience about the topic and tried to give advices to those who are still suffer from anxiety.

According to the Anxiety Disorders Association of Canada, “the 12 month prevalence for any anxiety disorder is over 12% and one in four Canadians (25%) will have at least one anxiety disorder in their lifetime”. We often hear about and constantly bring up the word ‘Anxiety’ in our daily life, and sometimes even experience it ourselves. Yet most people have a lack of knowledge about the Anxiety concepts and easily misunderstand many myths that they heard through shallow conversations with friends.

It’s time to dig deeper.

It’s time to maze.

Group Members: Scarlet Nguyen, Tonya Yin, Ellie Wang, Rozalyn Lee

In this episode, we went around the school and interview random students and teachers to test their knowledge about Anxiety. The answers and their reactions were were really interesting and hilarious at some points, but we also recognize a serious problem: there is a disconnection between the students and the teachers although both groups related deeply to this topic.