Apologies if the sound for this episode is off. My microphone had technical difficulties so I had to re-dub my parts for audio clarity.

For this holiday season, this episode will talk about mental health We always hear a lot about mental health. This may contain sensitive themes. We heara lot of buzzwords like anxiety, depression, toxicity, stress, trigger warnings etc . While many dismiss it as a lack of faith or resilience or a fad among the youth, there is a real phenomenon ofan increasing number of diagnoses, which need medication and therapy, and at extreme cases may lead to self-harm and suicide. Many people have integrated mental health into popular discourse but there are still other parts of society that do not understand or tolerate it. There is a lot we do not fully understand about this reality. This week, we have two guests RS Mojica and Bill Fuentes from Mental Health PH, to hopefully help us understand and demystify mental health and how ordinary citizens can address this issue.

Recommendations

Good Will Hunting: imdb.com/title/tt0119217/

The trial (2014) by Chito Rono: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WX3dy2s1y3s&t=3941s

Psych2go: https://www.youtube.com/@Psych2go

For more resources check their Mental Health Directory: https://mentalhealthph.org/directory/

Check out Mental Health PH in their links below

Website: https://mentalhealthph.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mentalhealthph

X(Formerly Twitter): https://twitter.com/mentalhealthph

0:00 Music

0:15 Intro

2:20 Guests Intro

5:55 What is Mental Health PH

10:00 What is Mental Health

16:30 How do we talk about Mental Health

33:55 How to do Mental Health Advocacy

41.15 How is Mental Health in the Philippines

48:50 Priority Solutions

52:00 How to deal with skeptics

58:40 Closing Statements

1:05:25 Recommendations