Mental Health in the Philippines
Some may find it difficult to accept this statement, but it is bitter truth that, although
persists as an unseen issue lying under our noses. Mental health is still a problem in
Philippine society at present. There may be some form of freedom now in the
revelation of such conditions, but even after implementing a law named after it to
Congress, even after so much mental health awareness posts have been shared over
the net to inform the general public, even after reassurance from society that mental
health should be treated just like any other health problem there is, there remains a
predicament still in certain areas of society. Mental health I an issue that was once
something that not one soul dared to speak of, almost as if a forbidden word, and
when one did, it was at one’s final moments before touching fingers with death. Until
today, there are inevitably and unfortunately, still those who treat mental health as a
mere gag, a phase, or simply as a means to gain attention. We ponder upon this
subject so much yet never ask ourselves why. Why indeed is this the stimuli of
society in regards to mental health like this? What makes mental health such an
insignificant topic to, if not society in general, to certain groups? What has made
society’s point of view on mental health on that is toxic and an implicit danger when
