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Analysing Healthy Relationships Video: https://www.canva.com/design/DAG7ESqbDsI/Ej2RAjIk5ybkWMM-0b_fKg/view?utm_content=DAG7ESqbDsI&utm_campaign=designshare&utm_medium=link2&utm_source=uniquelinks&utlId=h458fbacdba

For this project, me and my partner Gracy made a video analysing whether the two characters in Spy Family, Loid and Yor Forger had a health relationship. In this process, I learned about how media could portray the fact that honesty is not good in a relationship, although it could be just the context of this anime. Loid and Yor Forger both keep secrets from each other, but are also able to remain a pretty healthy relationship, in real life might not be possible. The “Health Watch News” which was the project me and gracy made, analyzing Spy x Family’s Forger family revealed a lesson about relationships about how daily acts of respect and teamwork can create the illusion of health even when foundational dishonesty undermines true intimacy. Because, although Loid and Yor demonstrate green-flag behaviors like mutual support, co-parenting synergy, and protective loyalty, their relationship remains structurally unstable due to the secrecy surrounding their spy/assassin secret identities. This highlights a critical distinction, how they have a surface-level harmony built on shared goals (Loid’s missions, and Yor’s trying to fit/Not being on the radar for being suspicious) cannot substitute for vulnerability and transparency, which are essential for making lasting trust. This further shows how media, showcasing how fiction can romanticize “noble lies” while actually modeling positive interpersonal habits, which sort of affects audiences to admire the characters’ care for one another but might also affect how audiences react and view secrets. This could also lead to people thinking that they don’t need to be honest because they have a good reason, but in reality, without transparency, relationships can easily fall apart.

I used to think mental health was about just how you can control your emotions, actions, and beliefs. When listening to other people’s presentations (Anxiety, Depression, OCD, Addiction, and Eating Disorders) I thought that eating disorders where about how someone could not eat, maybe like an allergy or something, but now I know that eating disorders are not just about not eating, it is also about eating too much and then losing too much weight afterwards (eating a lot and then using drastic measures to take it all out again). For example, if someone ate a lot of food and then try to vomit it all out later, that would be a sign of having an eating disorder. I also noticed that all of these mental health conditions are connected to genes and family background, this changed my thinking very much. I used to think that genes don’t really matter and the only thing that matters was the way you do things and slowly get a mental condition, so I think it is very important to know and think about how family members may also have conditions and how they might affect me.

After this project I also realized that there is actually quite a lot of STIGMA in the media and even in some famous movies, this led me to think and look at a lot of different movies and books differently. For example, in percy jackson, they talk about how all the demigods either have ADHD or dyslexia, but I think this books shows it in a good way, saying that if they have it, they have a high likelihood of being related to a god. But in other movies like maybe the joker, they sort of put the scary and horror into mental hospitals which gives the feeling of having a mental disorder a negative connotation.

During this unit, I was surprised that there are so many different mental disorders that I don’t really understand and that they are all hidden in a way, so other people can’t really see. This made me think that I should be more careful about what I say and try to notice if any of my friends need support in any way.