FIGHTING TO PREVENT DEPRESSION

HAPHE's ethnographic research reveals that emotional investments play a crucial role in the current depression crisis, especially among young people in higher education. Traditional prevention methods focus on building resilience but often overlook how the loss of heavily invested in social assets can be warning signs of exposure to future trauma and anxiety.

In our fast-paced, market-driven world, we're deeply attached to people, projects, and ideas— The HAPHE Project suggests, sometimes too deeply. While these connections or social assets bring joy, their loss according research in 75% of our students who participated in the research led to profound sadness and trauma—the deeper the attachment, it revealed (i.e the more invested in), the greater the impact.

The HAPHE Project doesn't want to stop there. It offers an opportunity for you to tell your story and by so doing, get your voice behind change .