TRILOGY

PART 1: Breaking the Stigma

Are you happy?

Are you mentally stable right now?

Are you scared?

Mental health has emerged as an important public health concern in recent years. With a high proportion of children and adolescents affected by mental disorders, it is important to ensure that they are provided with proper care and treatment.

In the Philippines especially with the advent of the COVID-19 Pandemic, more Filipinos display poor mental health characterized by the feeling of loneliness and hopelessness which sometimes lead to depression, anxiety, and other mental disorders.

Despite this, discussion concerning mental health issues remained a stigma in the country. With the misaligned perceptions, archaic beliefs, and the low number of mental health programs, Filipinos are still suffering.

This is alarming!

Break the stigma.

Destroy archaic beliefs about mental health.

Seek for professional help.

Because YOU matter!

PART 2: Kamusta at Paano

How do we care our Mental Health?

Who can help?

Who can understand?

Mental health issues are gigantic impediments in the pursuit of productive capacity, social interactions and holistic well-being. Today, given the shift into digital workspace, we see a lot of people struggling to cope up in the online environment which adds the amount of anxiety and stress. Our current circumstance sharpens depressive tendencies which drowns people in the depths of extreme worrying and anxiety. Peering through this dark moments is a triumph, it tells us a narrative of courage, strength and inspiration.

Thus, ending the stigma subjected directly towards this matter is a great help to combat this serious health concern. Together, with understanding and proper knowledge, there is always a room for recovery; recovery in way that mental health issues are destigmatized. Let us foster and cultivate a culture of understanding and empathy for us to build an inclusive, sensitive and kind society.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE.

PART 3: The Poetic Conclusion

Ga, are you mentally stable right now

Nothing about depression in itself is beautiful-absolutely nothing! Being someone who's at constant war with his or her mind and is struggling for a will to survive isn't beautiful and it most certainly isn't something to romanticize.

While depression isn't beautiful, the strength you have to keep fighting your mind every day is. So, take the waves day by day, and fight the storm no matter how many times your mind wants you to sink. Remember, every success story isn't about how someone fell, they're about how someone overcomes and rises.

Needing additional help doesn't mean you are weak. Sometimes the negative thinking in depression can make you feel like you're a lost cause. But depression can be treated and you can feel better!

Break the stigma.

Destroy archaic beliefs about mental health.

Seek for professional help.

Because YOU matter!

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