In this era of life, the Egyptian and Arab human population is witnessing multiple psychological pressures since the results of the several political and economic turbulences representing the present status-co. In response to it, several Egyptian youth launched an initiative called Bazrameet to spread the awareness regarding the mental health. The initiative is adopting a straightforward and smooth speech using the Egyptian slang to have a bigger outreach and have a very wider impact on the youth.
Bazrameet initiative is looking to spread the awareness regarding the mental and psychological health to help people enjoy good emotional and behavioral levels, and let these to lead a flexible life that balances its different facets and activities.
Figures through the World Health Organization reveal that about 50 % around the globe population is affected with a mental illness that affects their self respect as well as their work capacity in everyday life. A lot more than 1.5 million depression patients happen in Egypt, and here comes a crucial role for that initiative.
The initiative is founded on the belief that the mental health affects the individual’s health directly and causes multiple other concerns like drugs’ addiction. Maintaining a fantastic psychological health level is very important to guide an efficient and fruitful life, and that’s precisely what the society needs.
The initiative was named Bazrameet to explain the present psychological health situation in Egypt. The term comes from the French word “Bizarre”, this means “Strange” in English, expressing the misconceptions many individuals have about psychological health. The initiative role will be to correct these conceptions.
Three goals Bazrameet is trying to achieve: Increasing awareness about psychological health through explaining the several mental disorders within an easy-to-digest scientific method; helping people who suffer from disorders like depression, anxiety, stress and the three personality disorders; and providing guidance to the family and friends supporting persons with mental disorders and psychological problems.
The initiative depends on to become a scientific content that serves these goals within an attractive and simple way in which offers the information easily to the audience through its Website. This content shall be also employed to create an interactive community for the social media. Bazrameet shall launch its activities during May in collaboration with specialized entities inside the regions of psychological and group therapy.