Porterville College presents: Movies for Mental Health

The most impactful aspect for this workshop was that this served as an outlet for people to take a breather during this time of the year/semester in their lives. This workshop allowed many to open up (due to the interactive slides with the material and the audience) and expressed to me personally that although I wasn’t going through the same things others were or had gone through, it still made me feel like I was going to be okay because I wasn’t the only one struggling. This workshop kind of felt like a therapy session but with friends (although mostly everyone in there were complete strangers to me) and I enjoyed everyone’s input on how certain material affected them or myself. It was great being in such a vulnerable, supportive and safe place in the world where as in other times of our life we endure tragedies or hardships and thus a very well needed and pleasant breather for what seemed like many but most certainly for myself. "