Kiwi Can

LI: To include and engage others by being sensitive to their feelings.  This week was our first session of Kiwi Can with Mrs Mac and Ms. Grace. The theme for this term was positive relationships, fairness, and fair play. We started with an energiser, called Change Places. For this activity, Ms Grace called out some things that we might like and if we liked it, we would change places with a different person. After we did our energiser, we talked about words related to empathy, which were courtesy, common sense, and consideration.  Some examples to show courtesy with words are having manners, being kind, and being polite. Some other examples to show courtesy without words are hand gestures, facial expressions, and body language. To show common sense, you make wise choices and trust your instincts. Some ways to show consideration is thinking about others and how people may feel. Lastly, we talked about some ways to show empathy which are, being kind, supportive and being considerate. After that, we did an activity, where we acted out the positive or negative ways of showing empathy. In our group our play was about someone crying because she was bullied, so we decided to cheer her up.

Explanation

How we can understand depression

Depression is a mood disorder when you can feel sad or have lost interest in something or someone. Sometimes depression can affect how you feel, behave and think. It may lead to physical and emotional problems. Depression can be caused physically or emotionally and may last a long time. Some mood swings might be thrown in there but that is just how depression is. It can sometimes get the best of you. There are many reasons why you can be depressed like overthinking, family problems, personal problems or stress. Depression can lead to people not eating properly or lack of communication.

There are some ways we could help with depression. Someone should not be facing it alone, you may be in a tough situation but there are always ways to help. You can be empathetic and share with each other how or what you’re feeling. It’s not that hard to tell someone how you feel. Sometimes your kindness can help the problem. Try and put yourself in their shoes and try to feel what they’re feeling. Trying isn’t much to ask for right? Little things might mean a lot to them, as you might have heard the saying 'little can go a long way'.

People can feel alone in this process, they can feel many types of things but suffering shouldn’t be one. They might shut themselves out from the world but that’s fine. They might have suicidal thoughts. Depression can take a big toll on their life. Although you might be thinking, depression is just being sad, it might be that bad that it may be life threatening. You can feel like there's a point where you have just messed up, but you are not alone, nobody is alone.

Depression is just like a mood swing, you can experience different types of emotions. Depression is like a point in life where you think you have failed in succeeding something, but everyone is bound to make a mistake now and then. You can fix that mistake, you can ask for help. Don’t ever feel alone because there will be someone there for you. You will one day face depression in your life, but you shouldn’t let it get the best of you. It’s not a very nice thing to have, but with the right support and communication, it can be treated carefully.

How would you know if someone is going through depression?

This week for writing we wrote an explanation about empathy and kindness. My topic was about depression. In my writing above I wrote how we can help with depression and some reasons you could be depressed.