Your Mental Guru

Do you like spending on things that aren't really important?

Like the goverment spending time on Anti-Terror Bill even if there's a pandemic?

Don't be stupid. Act Wisely.

Mental health is a person's emotional, psychological and social well-being. Mental health affects what we do or how we think. However, like the body, it can also have various problems. Those mental health problems can affect anybody from any age or profession. It is influenced by biological factors or by his/her environment and/or experiences.

The youth are the most vulnerable to mental illnesses. The youth, especially adolescents(ages 9-19), are going thorugh formative times.Their Character formation can be affected by living conditions, interaction with peers, and the quality of support they receive. Such disorders one may suffer from emotioanlly are anxiety and depression; childhood behaviors that are age inappropriate like ADHD and Dyslexia; eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa; risk-taking behaviors like taking drugs or alcohol; and worse, self harm which may lead to suicide that already claimed 62,000 lives of teenagers in 2016.

No one deserves to suffer from a mental illness. Everbody from the community, not just experts, play a role in someone's mental health. We should try to intervene with the people who are affected to help them recover, orient people about mental health so they can prevent mental illnesses, and encourage people to seek treatment from doctors and therapists. Recently, Duterte signed the "Mental Health Act". It aims to reduce the stigma around mental illnesses and make services available for anyone. This proves that even the government is concerned about the Filipino people's mental status.

Contact National Center for Mental Health (NCMH): 0917-989-8727, available 24/7.