If you’re feeling anxious, and on top of that, feeling anxious about feeling anxious then this animation is for you. While our relationship to anxiety can often feel overwhelming, an understanding of it is the first step to regaining control.
ADHD, affecting about 6.8% of adults worldwide, is a condition that can impact people’s behavior greatly.
To shed some light on the condition, Synima partnered with University College London to produce a comprehensive animation to raise awareness and suggest some treatment pathways.
This animation examines the complexity of why we feel and express anger and attempts to explore it’s roots. It offers an alternative approach to thinking about our experience of anger and ways to address it.
Research has shown the roots of anxiety often begin in childhood. This animation attempts to frame issues such as inconsistent parenting and watchfulness during childhood and its relationship to anxiety in adulthood.
Alcohol addiction is both pernicious and progressive. Its highly damaging for the addict and the family and friends who try to help. This animation provides an overview of alcohol addiction from a personal and social context.
Recovery from drug addiction can begin through an understanding of why we start using, and how drug use develops within the most intimate aspects of our life. This animation was made to address the complex topic of drug addiction in an engaging and quantifiable way.
Around one in five (21%) adults aged 16 years and over in Great Britain experienced some form of depression an increase from 19% in November 2021. This animation attempts to focus upon the psychological origins of depression in the hope that a better understanding may hopefully support those affected.
Exacerbated by the isolation and uncertainty experienced during the pandemic, there has been a notable increase in the number of children requiring assistance for mental health issues. As CAMHS faces challenges in addressing the backlog, a heightened threshold was introduced in 2021-22, effectively restricting access for 60% of children lingering on waiting lists. Presently, the criteria for treatment have been elevated to a degree where children must be in a severe condition to be deemed “ill enough,” potentially pushing more children to critical points that could have been mitigated with earlier intervention.
“We cannot get closure from trauma, but we can get better at living with it.” This animation explores the dynamics of trauma. It offers advice and support in how to address it and, with time, manage its malign effects.
If ‘your health is your wealth’ then surely it’s vital to take time to explore our relationship to our bodies. Research increasingly shows how this relationship can affect our mental health. This animation explores why this vital relationship is often overlooked and how this may be addressed.
We created these animations in response to ‘the second pandemic’ (Royal College of Physicians, 2022). The double digit rise in mental health issues increases the burden upon Medicaid and Medicare in the US and the NHS in the UK.
The animations are free of charge in order to further the discussion around these sensitive topics. In the spirit of hoping to continually improve them, we welcome any feedback.
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