Why is this important?

Mental Health
Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, psychiatric,
neurologic and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act.
It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and
make choices.

We are all not perfect, we have issues to be resolved. Find the right
people and efficient ways to resolve these issues.

Erase the notion that when you seek mental health services, buang ka
na dayon. All of us need to maintain a healthy mental, psychosocial,
and neurologic state.

There must be an effective synergy between mental and physical

health to manage and utilize external factors to maintain homeostasis
 Neurology
a branch of medicine dealing with the diagnosis and treatment of all
categories of conditions and disease involving the brain, the spinal
cord and the peripheral nerves.[1] Neurological practice relies
heavily on the field of neuroscience, the scientific study of the
nervous system.
 Psychiatry
Psychiatry is the medical specialty devoted to the diagnosis,
prevention, and treatment of mental disorders. These include
various maladaptations related to mood, behaviour, cognition, and
perceptions.
 Psychosocial
The psychosocial approach looks at individuals in the context of the
combined influence that psychological factors and the surrounding
social environment have on their physical and mental wellness and
their ability to function
 REPUBLIC ACT No. 11036
June 20, 2018

An Act Establishing a National Mental Health Policy

for the Purpose of Enhancing the Delivery of
Integrated Mental Health Services,
Promoting and Protecting the Rights of Persons
Utilizing Psychiatric, Neurologic, and Psychosocial Health Services,
Appropriating Funds Therefor and Other Purposes
 REPUBLIC ACT No. 11036
Section 44
Penalty Clause
Any person who commits any of the following acts shall, upon
conviction by final judgment, be punished by imprisonment of not
less than six (6) months, but not more than two (2) years, or a fine of
not less than Ten thousand pesos (P10,000.00), but not more than
Two hundred thousand pesos (P200,000.00), or both, at the
discretion of the court:
 REPUBLIC ACT No. 11036
Section 44
Penalty Clause

(a) Failure to secure informed consent of the service user, unless it falls under the
exceptions provided under Section 18 of this Act;

(b) Violation of confidentiality of information, as defined under Section

(c) of this Act;

(c) Discrimination against a person with mental-health condition, as defined under

Section 4(e) of this Act; and

(d) Administering inhumane, cruel, degrading or harmful treatment not based on

medical or scientific evidence as indicated in Section 5(h) of this Act;