Understanding Mental Health Challenges and Support in the Philippines

it's okay not to be okay pero parabang it's not really okay 3.6 million filipinos

is mental and neurological disorder at 88 mental health cases about 100 000 pilipino

here's what you need to know mental health matters mental health problems at disorder

and anxiety disorders depression paranoia bipolar disorder

schizophrenia obsessive compulsive disorder or ocd behavioral and emotional disorders la

lunas post traumatic stress disorder eating disorder at psychosis

ions surveying octa research on march 2021 28 percent

emotional problems stress is a systematic review non-social

psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology no filipino helps seeking for mental health problems and associated barriers

and facilitators ang stigma to also mental health bilangisang nakakahiyang saki

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mental health care instead until it's uh severe comed victim

blaming maryland i'm blaming the patient and this causes a lot of stigma and we're

just talking about the householder community [Music]

with friends or families who's a structural systemic problem cultural trait

behaviors and beliefs then excessive being unhealthy coping mechanism in some mental health

that is deeply ingrained in us to the point that we are ready to sacrifice ourselves

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capacity of our albulario traditional healers to help better a person's mental health

situation we shouldn't we have to understand that mental health is in is an issue of well-being

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but of course we don't promise anything that could be disappointing and could possibly be triggering satan

problem as a mental health i gonna promise cannon support tapas in the end is it

helpful that we have several avenues wherein people are saying i'm here to listen and so the best thing

to do during those times when someone is talking to you someone is telling you what's going on is to listen

training try not to give suggestions

try to just listen and then provide the names the actual names of these people you know the institutions

where these people are from and provide assistance in reaching out to those people

[Music] mental health problems we treat mental health like it could be

just a common flu okay when in fact mental health conditions

are long-term conditions which would require long-term

solutions and long-term assistance ions the latest data molasses doh at who sabu um

92 na an occupancy rate majority in among mental health centers i located the national capital region atmanga

major cities psychiatrists per 100 000 population three to five percent langdin

health budget mental health mental health nangbawa filipino going

into accessible mura this is the systemic failure of the implementation of our mental health act

the problem is do we have the budget for it so again we need funding to train

large-scale training of youth leaders of school organization leaders community workers community health workers

we need a large-scale training for those groups of people so that they can provide um support when the

professionals are still swamp with other cases national center for mental health nitung

january july 2021 mental health hotline nasa 10 544 calls

we also need to recognize that each individual can be vulnerable there is no harm

in saying it's a recognition on our partners a lack of information lack of awareness

we have to let everyone in our society in our community to take part in in in uh building a a society that is

accepting and helpful towards the achievement of mental health

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