PEER PRESSURE ACTIVITY - Paula M., Meritxell V. and Gonzalo P.

PEER PRESSURE ACTIVITY

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Introduction

You are going through a difficult situation, it is hard to deal emotionally with all what is going on in your life, you feel like you are not fitting in the society and that anyone wants to be with you, you don’t have lots of friends, and you don’t feel prepared to express yourself and your feelings to your family. Nevertheless, in the middle of all this bad situation, while you are browsing on the internet, you find a website that seems interesting, this website is based on a group of people that offer sessions to help the ones that have self-esteem problems, problems of exclusion and more issues related to the feelings someone can have.

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Introduction

You ask for more information, and you find out that they do help sessions in your own population, moreover, you discover that the first session is free. One day, while returning from school, you go to the centre where these sessions are realized with the aim of getting more information, and you discover that they do a practice that seems to be a group therapies with people with similar problems to the ones you have, there is a guy who guides the therapies and that helps you to feel better, but he seems to be a leader who everyone follows without questions. You ask for information to a person who offers you to assist to one session.

Go to a first lesson

Reject the offer

Keep going to lessons

Stop going to lessons

You go to your first sessions, you find a group of people who understand you and have your same problems, the leader guides all the sessions and all seams good. Moreover, you feel really comfortable and you dare to tell your problems. The following week, you have some hard days, and you decide to go another time to these sessions. This time, you will have to pay a small amount of money to assist to these sessions, but like that you can have some food and smalls gifts. During the following weeks, you go to some sessions more, and you are really comfortable there and happy. Nevertheless, some days later the sessions start to be different, the leader is telling religious and magician stuff and that makes you feel strange, the group doesn’t seem to be feeling the same, because they don’t find that things rare. Knowing all this, you now question yourself about what to do. On the one hand, that sessions have helped you a lot, you feel better, and you are happier than ever because of the help you receive, you have also more friends, and you know you will lose theme if you stop going there. On the other hand, that sessions are starting to feel different, and you are scared of what can happen, you feel like the leader is telling the others ideas that are wrong and maybe all this could end up in a big disaster. What will you do next?

You have accepted to go to a first lesson

Try to go to lessons

You don't change your mind

When you reject the offer the person who you asked explains to you that the first session is free and without any commitment, furthermore, you won’t lose anything by trying, and you really feel you need to change something in your life.In addition, he explains to you that in this group you can share your issues and that there is more people like you that can help you, he also says that your problems matter to them, they can make you feel better. He offers a lower price for future sessions and more free sessions, he says that you can also try more activities with theme as yoga, spa and methods of relaxation.You really wanted a group like this, someone who can listen to you and that can understand you, there are also people that you can meet and become friends to, and you feel like you desire a better sociable life.What are you going to do?

You have rejected to go to a first lesson

Keep going to lessons

Stop going to lessons

You go to your first sessions, you find a group of people who understand you and have your same problems, the leader guides all the sessions and all seams good. Moreover, you feel really comfortable and you dare to tell your problems. The following week, you have some hard days, and you decide to go another time to these sessions. This time, you will have to pay a small amount of money to assist to these sessions, but like that you can have some food and smalls gifts. During the following weeks, you go to some sessions more, and you are really comfortable there and happy. Nevertheless, some days later the sessions start to be different, the leader is telling religious and magician stuff and that makes you feel strange, the group doesn’t seem to be feeling the same, because they don’t find that things rare. Knowing all this, you now question yourself about what to do. On the one hand, that sessions have helped you a lot, you feel better, and you are happier than ever because of the help you receive, you have also more friends, and you know you will lose theme if you stop going there. On the other hand, that sessions are starting to feel different, and you are scared of what can happen, you feel like the leader is telling the others ideas that are wrong and maybe all this could end up in a big disaster. What will you do next?

You have accepted to go to a first lesson

You keep going to the lessons

When you reject the offer the person who you asked explains to you that the first session is free and without any commitment, furthermore, you won’t lose anything by trying, and you really feel you need to change something in your life.In addition, he explains to you that in this group you can share your issues and that there is more people like you that can help you, he also says that your problems matter to them, they can make you feel better. He offers a lower price for future sessions and more free sessions, he says that you can also try more activities with theme as yoga, spa and methods of relaxation.You really wanted a group like this, someone who can listen to you and that can understand you, there are also people that you can meet and become friends to, and you feel like you desire a better sociable life.What are you going to do?

You have rejected to go to a first lesson

You don't change your mind

YOU HAVE SCAPED

Without knowing, the group of help you have almost entered to was a cult, sometimes the cults convince you that they would help you and they use your emotional issues. Then, what they do when you have entered is to use peer pressure to keep you into the cult, they threaten you, they use the power a group can create, and they force you to stay without physical contact, only with the pressure of a group.

RESOURCES

Now, as an activity, find information about how to identify a cult and what to do if you are in a bad mental condition.

YOU HAVE ENTERED A CULT

Without knowing, the group of help you have entered to is a cult, sometimes they told you they would help you and they use your emotional state. Then, what they do when you have entered is to use peer pressure to keep you into the cult, they threaten you, they use the power a group can create, and they force you to stay without physical contact, only with the pressure of a group. Now, it will be difficult to scape from the cult and you will be in a big trouble.

RESOURCES

Now, as an activity, find information about how to identify a cult and what to do if you are in a bad mental condition.

RESOURCES

A mobile phone that can help people in a bad mental condition: 800 911 2000INFORMATION ABOUT CULTS: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-cult-5078234

INFORMATION ABOUT MENTAL STABILITY: https://www.who.int/health-topics/mental-health#tab=tab_1

RESOURCES

A mobile phone that can help people in a bad mental condition: 800 911 2000INFORMATION ABOUT CULTS: https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-a-cult-5078234

INFORMATION ABOUT MENTAL STABILITY: https://www.who.int/health-topics/mental-health#tab=tab_1