Mental Health Awareness

April Joyce A. Bitancor, RPm

Behavioral Sciences Dept., College of Arts and Humanities
Palawan State University – Main Campus
Topic Outline:
1) What is Mental Health
2) Prevalence of Mental Illnesses
3) Common Mental Illnesses
4) Mental Health Continuum
5) Ways to take care of Mental Health
WHAT IS MENTAL HEALTH?
 MENTAL HEALTH IS…

• Mental health is a state of mental well-being that enables

people to cope with the stresses of life, realize their abilities, learn well
and work well, and contribute to their community.

• It is an integral component of health and well-being

that underpins our individual and collective abilities to make decisions,
build relationships and shape the world we live in.

• Mental health is a basic human right . And it is crucial to

personal, community and socio-economic development.

- WHO, 17 June 2022, Mental health: strengthening our response.

• Mental health is more than the absence of mental disorders. It
exists on a complex continuum, which is experienced
differently from one person to the next, with varying degrees of
difficulty and distress and potentially very different social and clinical
outcomes.

• Mental health conditions include mental disorders and

psychosocial disabilities as well as other mental states
associated with significant distress, impairment in functioning, or risk
of self-harm. People with mental health conditions are more likely to
experience lower levels of mental well-being, but this is not always or
necessarily the case.

- WHO, 17 June 2022, Mental health: strengthening our response.

Determinants of mental health
• multiple individual, social and structural determinants may
combine to protect or undermine our mental health and shift
our position on the mental health continuum.

• Over the course of your life, if you experience mental health problems,
your thinking, mood, and behavior could be affected.

Many factors contribute to mental health problems, including:

• Biological factors: genes or brain chemistry
• Life experiences: trauma or abuse
• Family history of mental health problems
Prevalence of Mental Illnesses
What is Mental Illness?
• Mental illness, also called mental health disorders, refers to a wide
range of mental health conditions — disorders that affect
your mood, thinking and behavior.

• Many people have mental health concerns from time to time. But a
mental health concern becomes a mental illness when ongoing
signs and symptoms cause frequent stress and
affect your ability to function.
Prevalence of Mental
Illnesses
Prevalence of
mental health
disorders by
disorder type:

It’s estimated
that 970
million people
worldwide had
a mental or
substance use
disorder in
2017. The large
st number of
people had an
anxiety
disorder,
estimated at
around 4
percent of the
population.
-4%
Prevalence
of mental
health
disorders
by genders
 In 2021, the Philippines…
• The DOH estimates that at least 3.6 million Filipinos are
facing mental health issues during the pandemic, including
depression, substance use disorders such as alcohol use disorder,
and mood disorders like bipolar disorder.

https://www.urc-chs.com/news/mental-health-on-the-move-in-the-philippines-meet-
thelusogisipapp/#:~:text=The%20DOH%20estimates%20that%20at,impact%20a%20person'
s%20mental%20health.
Common Mental Illnesses
Mental Health Continuum
Mental Health Continuum
• Mental health is not a binary state – you are not
either mentally healthy or ill. Our mental health falls
on a continuum, ranging from excellent mental
health to severe symptoms such as panic attacks or
major depressive episodes.
Ways to take care of
Mental Health
 https://www.verywellmind.com/forty-healthy-coping-skills-4586742

Healthy Coping Strategies:

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referrences:

• WHO, 17 June 2022, Mental health: strengthening our response.

• https://delphis.org.uk/mental-health/continuum-mental-health/
• Unh.edu./health/how-are-you
• https://www.usf.edu/student-affairs/wellness/documents/well_mwell-
menta-health-myth-alternative.pdf
• https://www.urc-chs.com/news/mental-health-on-the-move-in-the-
philippines-meet-
thelusogisipapp/#:~:text=The%20DOH%20estimates%20that%20at,imp
act%20a%20person's%20mental%20health
• https://www.sketchbubble.com/en/presentation-abnormal-
psychology.html
• https://www.verywellmind.com/forty-healthy-coping-skills-4586742