精神健康
在一起，賦權是可能的。
讓我們一起挑戰心理健康問題的恥辱，讓人們獲得所需的幫助。
不用擔心評判、孤立或偏見。
透過向人們介紹戶外環境，我們可以幫助預防和支持心理健康問題，並提供一個人們可以獲得支持的社區。
HKOutsider 基金會針對心理健康提供社區支持。我們相信，對患有精神疾病的人來說，社區支持和環境連結可以促進康復、成長、自由和自我實現。
關於心理健康
One in four people will experience mental health challenges in their lives; it is not as uncommon as people may think. Mental illnesses can affect people of any age, race, religion, or income.
A mental illness is a medical condition that disrupts a person’s thinking, feeling, mood, and ability to relate to others and daily functioning.
Mental illness is a broad term that includes a variety of conditions. Including but not limited to: schizophrenia; bipolar disorder; anxiety disorders; depression; dissociation and dissociative identity disorder (DID); eating disorders; personality disorders; schizoaffective disorder; borderline personality disorder; drugs, alcohol, and mental health; Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD); psychosis; obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); and borderline personality disorder.
Depression is the most common mental illness in the world. The Centers for Disease Control in the United States calculates the number of people suffering from depression at 350 million. The World Bank considers it “the greatest thief of productive economic life,” with yearly global costs at U.S. $2.5 trillion.
Clinical depression can sometimes lead to suicide. An estimated 1 million people worldwide die by suicide every year. Globally, suicide ranked among the three leading causes of death among those aged 15-44 years, and attempted suicides are up to 20 times more frequent than completed ones.
Therefore, our foundation has chosen to focus efforts on depression and anxiety disorders in the mental health space.
If you are interested in how HKOutsider can support you and your organization with mental health workshops, events, training and CSR (corporate social responsibility) programs please contact: adventure@hkoutsider.com
環境如何影響我們的福祉？
不愉快的環境所帶來的壓力會導致人們感到焦慮、悲傷和無助。這會提高血壓、心率和肌肉緊張度，並抑制免疫系統。一個宜人的環境可以扭轉這個局面。
身處大自然，甚至觀看荒野景色，可以減少憤怒、恐懼和壓力，並增加愉悅感。接觸大自然不僅讓您的情緒感覺更好，而且還有助於您的身體健康，降低血壓、心率、肌肉緊張和壓力荷爾蒙的產生。
HKOutsider 透過我們與不同群體的戶外探險有機會親眼目睹這一點。
社區如何？
影響我們的福祉？
成為社區的一部分可以對心理健康產生非常積極的影響。它主要透過三個方式提供幫助：
歸屬感
社區參與提供了歸屬感和社會連結感。它還可以為日常生活提供額外的意義和目的。 HKOutsider歡迎大家；我們擁抱來自不同背景的個人，鼓勵他們做自己並展示他們獨特的品質。
支援
知道人們支持您可以幫助您感到被關心和安全，並對您的人生觀產生積極影響。 HKOutsider 提供了一個安全的空間，讓人們有機會互相交談，幫助他們渡過難關。
目的
在每個社區中，人們自然會扮演不同的角色。這些角色可以讓您透過改善他人的生活而獲得使命感。透過建立目標並幫助他人，您可以幫助賦予個人生命的意義。
我能做些什麼？
If you have any experience in the fields of Mental Health, Psychology, Experiential Learning, or Adventure Therapy and would like to be involved, please reach out to us at adventure@hkoutsider.com.
Spread awareness about mental health so together, we can create a behavioral change and societal support for the actions needed to tackle this issue.
The community is only as strong as the individuals in it, all for one and one for all.