2024-03-02 18:07:00
Written by Mahmoud Ragheb – Photographed by Hassan Muhammad Saturday, March 2, 2024 08:07 PM The Ambassador spoke Nabila MakramFounder and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the “Fahim” Foundation for Psychological Support, and former Minister of Immigration, regarding the beginning of the Foundation and its establishment, saying: The first year of the Foundation’s birth, the Foundation’s slogan was “Understand – Listen – Speak.”
The founder and chair of the Board of Trustees of the “Fahim” Foundation for Psychological Support, and the former Minister of Immigration, added the celebration of the “Fahim” Foundation for Psychological Support, to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the establishment of the first Egyptian institution to raise awareness regarding mental health and break the stigma of mental illness, saying: Through the foundation’s work to Throughout the year, we heard, understood, and communicated with many segments of society regarding mental illness and its suffering. Therefore, we decided to change the organization’s slogan to be “Listen – Understand – Speak.”
Ambassador Nabila Makram stressed that mental health is not a goal, but rather the same as physical health, saying: Just as we go to play sports in order to maintain our physical fitness, we must maintain and work on our psychological fitness as well.
She continued: We always saw on the walls of schools a healthy mind in a healthy body, but with time we discovered that this is not necessarily the case. It is possible that some people suffer from psychological illnesses and at the same time this does not appear on their bodies.
He talked regarding how to maintain psychological fitness by staying away from everything that affects our psychological health, for example, social networking sites that have begun to destroy social communication, and also what we go through in our lives in terms of loss of a person or trauma, and also the events of Gaza and what we see on a daily basis, all of that. It affects our mental health.
She added: We have been working throughout the year since the establishment of the institution to confront the stigma towards mental illness, pointing out that the stigma did not only affect the patient, but also affected the psychiatrist.
Ambassador Nabila Makram greeted the psychiatrists who are members of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, led by Dr. Afaf Hamed and Dr. Abdel Nasser Hassan, in addition to honoring the names of a number of psychiatrists.
She paid tribute to the persevering, struggling, and silently suffering woman who has any member of her family suffering from any mental illness, pointing out that the institution will work on many files, including the identification papers of psychiatric patients in hospitals, and work on the file of the rights of people who are mentally ill, and other important files.
Ambassador Nabila Makram saluted the Minister of Health and the Minister of Environment for their efforts in supporting the institution, pointing out that it is the first time a trip has been organized for Abbasiya Hospital patients outside the hospital walls.
The celebration comes in the presence of Ambassador Nabila Makram, founder and chair of the Board of Trustees of the Fahim Foundation for Psychological Support, Dr. Ali Al-Moselhi, Minister of Supply, Dr. Hala Al-Saeed, Minister of Planning, Dr. Yasmine Fouad, Minister of Environment, Al-Sayyid Al-Qasir, Minister of Agriculture, Ambassador Moushira Khattab, and Counselor Alaa El-Din Fouad, Minister of Parliamentary Councils. .
A number of former ministers, representatives of the House of Representatives and the Shura Council, members of the Parties Youth Coordination, politicians, and a large number of public figures will also witness the celebration.
Regarding the celebration, the Foundation said: Fahim Foundation for Psychological Support celebrates with you today its achievements. Learn more regarding our long journey during 2023.
She continued: The beginning stemmed from our belief that the psychological patient, like the organic patient, needs care and attention. Therefore, we established the Fahim Foundation for Psychological Support in 2023, whose primary goal was to raise awareness regarding mental health and break the stigma of mental illness.
She said: We have come a long way in 2023 and in a full year we were able to organize 100 events and help more than 1,500 people, and we will continue on the same path in 2024. We will organize workshops, conduct cooperation protocols, and wait for you in psychological support groups so that we can hear each other’s experiences, understand more, and reach a solution and treatment for any problem. A problem under the supervision of specialized doctors. Follow us to know our plans for the new year and together we can reach our goals and break the stigma of mental illness and provide ourselves and others with mental health.
The “Fahim” Foundation is a leading civil society organization that aims to increase awareness of mental illnesses through awareness campaigns, seminars and workshops with government agencies and bodies and a number of specialists and psychiatrists, in addition to preparing the family of a psychiatric patient to understand what the illness is and how to deal with it and eliminating the common negative image of it. Mental illness.
The Foundation’s areas of work include spreading the culture of mental health using all media and advertising means, holding seminars and workshops on the importance of raising awareness of the seriousness of mental illness, communicating with psychiatric patients and their families and providing advice to them by addressing specialists in the field of psychiatry and psychotherapy.
The Foundation’s areas of work also include raising awareness of the harms of remaining silent regarding mental illness and not following up on the case, increasing community awareness for families, people with special needs, and psychiatric patients regarding the needs necessary for them, the needs of the mentally ill, the possibility of treating him and integrating him into society, and combating discrimination and bullying once morest the mentally ill. Providing ways to treat psychiatric patients through doctors and therapists specialized in related fields, and rehabilitation services for the psychiatric patient and promoting his integration into society.
The Foundation’s areas of work also include protecting the rights of the family, people with special needs, and the mentally ill, and supporting non-discrimination or bullying on the basis of mental illness through awareness and seminars.
Conferences, workshops, and education regarding the specialties of the psychiatrist and psychotherapist, the difference between them, and when to resort to either of them, and opening areas of communication with cases of domestic violence or sexual assault once morest children and those suffering from various psychological illnesses.
Also, among the Foundation’s areas of work is introducing, raising awareness, and training in the field of mental health once morest the dangers of mental illnesses, including, but not limited to, psychological stress, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, narcolepsy, depression, insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Shock.
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