Mental Health Awareness

Mental Health awareness is the ongoing effort to reduce the stigma around mental illnes and mental health conditions by sharing our personal experiences.

Often, because of misconception about mental health and mental fitness, people often suffer in silence and their conditions untreated. Mental health awareness is an important social movement to both improve understanding and increase access to healthcare.

HOW CAN MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS HELP?

There are three main reasons why mental health awareness is so important;

1. Understand Your Symptoms

– Lot of people who have mental health awareness symptoms don’t actually realize that their struggles are a result of untreated disorders. Therefore, mental health awareness is helpful in getting you to understand your symptoms.

2. More Behavioral Health Resources

– Another significant benefit to mental health awareness is that the more people know about the need for mental health treatment, the more mental health resources will become available, without mental health resources, people would not be able to recover.

3. Break The Mental Health Stigma

– Importantly, mental health awareness can break the stigma of needing mental health care. Having mental disorders doesn’t mean that you are crazy with more awareness and the right mental health care, you will realize that you are not alone. Having mental health support gets you one step closer to mental health recovery.

FAVORITE OPM SONG

KAPAYAPAAN – Tropical Depression (band)

This song is a call for everyone to make everyday peace a reality. It is hard-hitting rock and roll, but bright, buoyant and hopeful. His unique wit and his commentary on everyday realities hit listeners right in the gut.

This song was made for the Filipino people who are in deep fighting and killings around the country and they wanted to let the Filipino people to understand the lyrics and feel the breeze of it’s relaxing and peaceful tone.

The reason why I choose this song, it is simply because it has a deep meaning to us. Stop the hatred and killings, and let the love spread in our heart so we could have a better world.

Use of social media amidst calamities

Today, social media such as facebook, instagram, twitter have become the primary sources of information. They are also vehicles for fake news and disinformation.

During crisis, the world discovered that social media is great way for individuals and communities to stay connected even while physically separated, here are the three primary roles of social media during a crisis;

1. A SOURCE OF INFORMATION ( DISINFORMATION )

Governments and brands used social media to provide people with a better understanding of events and their impacts. Unfortunately, some people used social media to spread falsehoods or false claims about the implementation, conspiracy, theories and more.

2. AN INFLUENCE ON PUBLIC RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS

Billions of people are free to publicly share their opinions regarding a crisis through various social media platforms. During a crisis, we saw individuals, organizations, and businesses use social media to spread awareness, as well as the public actions that can be taken.

3. A POWERFUL WAY TO BRING POSITIVITY TO A SCARY TIME

No platform is perfect, but while we saw misinformation and fear on social media, there was also abundance of life saving information with others. Social media gave us the ability to share experiences with family and friends to help combat both literal and emotional isolation while reminding us that we are all together in this fight.