ABOUT US
A Caring Cohorts Project - the Fourth Sunrise is an initiative by a group of six high schoolers that aims to destigmatize mental health issues amongst people aged 11-16. We want to establish a virtual space where they feel comfortable and safe enough to share their experiences with mental health, and issues such as eating disorders or disordered eating, self-image and body image, generalized anxiety, disorder, depression, panic disorder, self-harm, or injury, extreme stress & social anxiety. We offer a variety of different methods of expression and discussion, along with information about mental health issues, how to cope with what you are going through, and how you can help someone going through this.
ABOUT US
A Caring Cohorts Project - the Fourth Sunrise is an initiative by a group of six high schoolers that aims to destigmatize mental health issues amongst people aged 11-16. We want to establish a virtual space where they feel comfortable and safe enough to share their experiences with mental health, and issues such as eating disorders or disordered eating, self-image and body image, generalized anxiety, disorder, depression, panic disorder, self-harm, or injury, extreme stress & social anxiety. We offer a variety of different methods of expression and discussion, along with information about mental health issues, how to cope with what you are going through, and how you can help someone going through this.
OUR TEAM
Saatvik comes as a very compassionate person who believes in innovation and creativity. He is quite the orator with his featured TED talk and an avid basketball player, who strongly believes in giving back to the society.
He has been closely involved in creating this team, its website, writing its blog, and in various graphic designs.
Project Leader
Saatvik Das
Social Media Manager
Reya joined this project as an initiative to spread awareness about mental illnesses, as she believes it is important to make more people aware especially in this generation and time where everyone is keeping to themselves.
Reya Mathur
Siddhant joined this project in order to contribute to the cause of good mental health. He is a creative student with an admiration for basketball and a passion for technology. He has an intermediate proficiency in designing and programming.
He played a large role in the website design and graphics as well.
Technical Director
Siddhant Singhania
Deteriorating mental health in teenagers is often attributed to hormonal imbalances and therefore deemed irrelevant. Tvisha wants to provide adolescents with a safe space to talk about, understand, and work through whatever they are going through.
She was involved in drafting the team's project plans.
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Editor
Tvisha Raj
He joined this project to help people his around him who are in the same age group as him with various mental illnesses and also spread awareness about mental health. He helped in designing the posts.
Graphics Designer
Aayan Gupta
THE PROBLEM
Indian society as a whole has rarely heeded much attention to one’s mental health. Often viewed as a “western” concept in many households, mental health is a relatively new concept to Indian society. The country has the highest rate of suicide occurring in the age group of 15 to 19 years, (about 21.1 suicides per 100,000, according to WHO estimates) with south India having higher risks than other regions. With a rise in the number of adolescents with depression in south India, denial is a frequently-used defence mechanism among caregivers.
A 2011 World Health Organisation-sponsored study found that 36% of Indians suffered from a Major Depressive Episode (MDE) within their lifetime. That means India has the most number of people in the world who suffer from some form of depression at some point in their lives. The social pressure to be “normal” manifests in unhealthy stigma and pressure against getting help. The long-held taboo has prevented millions in India from accessing mental health care.
OUR PROJECT
The Fourth Sunrise is a group of high schoolers in their teenage years themselves. All its members at some point in their life have definitely had an experience with the deterioration of their mental health.
Our project aims to provide a safe haven for teenagers; one where they can openly share their feelings and talk to people sharing similar experiences.
our journey
This was the first time we were responsible for a project this large. Everything including research, planning, and implementation was done by us. Another very important skill we gained is collaboration skills. When brainstorming ideas, we learned to be open-minded and to respect the opinions of others, as well as to contribute our own.
THE NEXT CHAPTER
To get more and more people involved in the cause, we would raise awareness through social media, using posters, surveys, and blogs. The more people are aware of the issue, the more they will look for solutions.
We definitely recommend other people our age to get involved in similar projects, for it provides an opportunity to learn skills that can’t be learnt from books.