The aim of the Robert Enke Foundation's "Impression Depression - A Virtual Reality Experience" campaign is to give people an impression of how a depressive illness affects their own psyche.
With the virtual reality experience Impression Depression wants the Robert Enke Foundation To create understanding and educate those not affected. The foundation itself commemorates Rober Enke, a German football goalkeeper who took his own life by suicide while suffering from depression. The purpose of the foundation is to promote measures and facilities that serve to educate people about depression and paediatric heart disease and/or to research or treat these illnesses.
We are currently working with the Brinkert/Metzelder agency on a virtual tour through the psyche of a person suffering from depression. Through his feelings and thoughts, his symptoms, his everyday life.
The aim is to enable people who are not affected, but who are perhaps relatives or friends of someone affected, to empathise with how individual symptoms of depression feel and to better understand the person's situation. The exact scenarios are still under development. However, users will be able to experience typical situations for people suffering from depression, for example: They are lying in bed and cannot get up. They move around the city and feel that everyone is watching them. This is a frightening, oppressive feeling.
An approximately 45-minute input is planned, which will be divided into an introduction, VR experience and reflection and will be accompanied by staff. The introduction is intended to provide information on the clinical picture and the VR experience, whereby those affected by depression are excluded from participation. The pure VR time is limited to six to ten minutes.
The campaign is being developed together with experts in new treatment concepts using virtual reality, child psychologists and youth and child psychotherapists. The campaign was officially launched on World Health Day, 7 April. The campaign will be advertised on the Internet, but also on large billboards, initially in Düsseldorf and Hamburg. The campaign will be continued over the course of the year. Companies, museums and universities that are interested can register on the website. There will also be a larger event in November to mark the tenth anniversary of Robert Enke's death before the project goes on tour in Germany.
Source: absatzwirtschaft / Robert Enke Foundation / Wikipedia
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