Mental Wellness Program

1. MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS:
“Mindfulness in the Workplace”

2. Mental Health Law
Republic Act. 11036
SEC. 25 Raise awareness on mental health issues, correct the stigma and
discrimination associated with mental health conditions, identify and
provide support for individual at risk, and facilitate access of individuals
with mental health conditions to treatment and psychosocial support.

3. Mental Health Law
MENTAL HEALTH DEFINED
the definition of mental health refers as stated in Sec. 4 of RA 11036,
as follows:
SEC. 4. (J) Mental Health – refers to a state of well-being in which the individual realizes
one’s own abilities and potentials, copes adequately with the normal stresses of life,
displays resilience in the face of extreme life events, works productively and fruitfully,
and is able to make a positive contribution to the community;
SEC. 4. (K) Mental Health Condition refers to a neurological or psychiatric condition
characterized by the existence of recognizable, clinically-significant disturbance in an
individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior that reflects a genetic or
acquired dysfunction in the neurobiological, psychosocial, or developmental processes
underlying mental functioning. The determination of neurological and psychiatric
conditions shall be based on scientifically-accepted medical nomenclature and best
available scientific and medical evidence;

4. Mental Health Law
CONFIDENTIALITY
Confidentiality refers as stated in Sec. 4 (C) of RA
11036 refers to ensuring that all relevant
information related to persons with psychiatric,
neurological, and psychosocial health needs is kept
safe from access or use by, or disclosure to, person
or entities who are not authorized to access, use,
or possess such information.

7. Understanding Stress
STRESS is a condition or feeling
experienced when a person
perceives that “demands exceed
the personal and social resources
the individual is able to mobilize.”
- Richard S. Lazarus

8. 2 Types of STRESS
1. EUSTRESS
Positive or productive stress
2. DISTRESS
Negative or Debilitating Stress

9. What are your usual
STRESSORS?
EXTERNAL STRESSORS
- Traffic
- Abusive Bosses
- Heavy Workloads
- Office Politics
- Time Pressure
- Social Pressure
- Major Life Changes
(death of loved ones,
transfer, sickness)
- Anything more?
INTERNAL STRESSORS
Examples:
- Perfectionism
- Competitiveness
- Low Self-esteem
- Fears & Phobia
- Ailments
- Family or Relationship
Issues

10. Common Stressors
Stressors at Home
Upkeep of the home
Finances
Raising children
Sibling rivalry
Family or relationship issues
laws or extended families
Neighbors
Financial dependency
Family conflicts or hostility
Family dysfunctions
Sickness and deaths
Stressors at Work
Unhealthy work environment
Work pressure
Commute and logistical considerations
Work load, deliverables and outputs
Possible conflicts
Peer pressure
Competition
Crab mentality
Office politics
Sexual harassment

11. Depression and Anxiety

12. 1 person dies every
40 seconds from
suicide – WHO

13. Depression and Anxiety
Depression is a common mental disorder that is characterized by
sadness, loss of interest in pleasure, feelings of guilt or low self-
worth, disturbed sleep or appetite, low energy and poor
concentration. These problems can become chronic or recurrent,
substantially impairing an individual’s ability to cope with daily life.
At its most severe manifestation, depression can lead to suicide.
Most cases of depression can be treated with medication or
psychotherapy.

15. Imbalance of Neurotransmitters

16. When The Heart Bleeds
We would like to share this unpublished
story by Letty Jacinto-Lopez about
model, Helena Belmonte’s death.
As always, our thoughts to Helena’s
family. Please feel free to share this
story!
When the Heart Bleeds
by
Letty Jacinto-Lopez
That Friday, a newsbreak: A fashion
model fell from the 28th floor of a condo

17. *Para broken-hearted lang, nag suicide na? Sobra naman ang
drama, hindi na uso yan.
*Spare the rod and you have an overprotected child who
cannot handle rejection and disappointments.
*When you are in the middle of an episode of depression, you
really feel like you are in the pits of despair at mahirap umahon
doon ng ganon-ganon nalang. Wala ka nga in your right mind,
that’s why she jumped to her death. RIP
*She had a chemical imbalance in her brain. Don’t ever judge a
person why she did that. Don’t call her mababaw, baliw, sira
ulo, weak. You don’t know what it’s like.
Helena was diagnosed with a bi-polar disorder.

18. By Jean Goulbourn
Published in The Philippine Star, September 12, 2010
[GTranslate]
(Editor’s note: On May 25, 2002, Natasha Goulbourn, 27, died in
Hong Kong from over-medication after a bout of depression. Here,
for the first time, Natasha’s mother, fashion designer Jean
Goulbourn, writes about the painful episodes that transpired after
her daughter’s death.)
MANILA, Philippines – No, God, no! I can’t accept that Tasha’s gone.
Please give me closure. Give me signs. Allow her to talk to me. Do
You exist? Are You really there? How could You let it happen? Why
call her home to You at her prime? Why lend her to me for so short
a time? What about her marching down the aisle as a bride? And
the six children that she wished for she wrote me in her Mother’s
Day card. What about the Goulbourn grandson she promised her
dad? She said she’d marry the man who would say yes in baptizing
her first son with a hyphenated surname, ____-Goulbourn, so the
family neme can continue! What about her sister, her best friend,
who she was going to be a maid of honor for?”
Embracing her pillow in her room, I had no tears; just this random
conversation with God and with her.

19. Gab Valenciano

20. Beauty And Brains
Aristotle says there’s no “great genius without a mixture of madness.”
Taking it literally, some of the most beautiful, most eminent, most
celebrated personalities in the world of television, literature, science,
health, music, society, and cinema, wrestled against mental disorders—
and iconic they became.
• English poet Virginia Woolf suffered from four major breakdowns
before drowning herself at the age of 59. She had manic-depressive
illness.
• Diana, The Princess of Wales, long struggled with bulimia and
depression before her tragic death in a car crash.
• Many speculated that Marilyn Monroe had either bipolar disorder or
borderline personality disorder (BPD), which ran in her family.
• Wordsmiths Robert Frost, Hans Christian Anderson, Edgar Allan Poe,
Ernest Hemingway, and T.S. Eliot all wrestled against bipolar disorder.

21. Harry Potter author JK Rowling spent nine months under cognitive behavioral therapy
when she had suicidal tendencies and depression as a single mother in her 20s.
• Disney teen pop star Demi Lovato struggles with anorexia, bulimia, and bipolar
disorder.
• Former Nickelodeon actress Amanda Bynes was diagnosed with schizophrenia and
bipolar disorder.
• Before their tragic death, Cory Monteith, Heath Ledger, and Philip Seymour
Hoffman suffered from mental illness.
• Singers and musicians like Britney Spears, Dona Summer, Pete Wentz, Billy Joel, and
Frank Sinatra all admitted their fight against bipolar disorder.
• Celebrated men like Winston Churchill, Vincent Van Gogh, and Mel Gibson all
suffered from bipolar disorder.
• Many believed that American poet Emily Dickinson’s often dark and gloomy poetry
suggested her bipolar disorder.

22. •Historical geniuses like Abraham Lincoln, Buzz Aldrin, Leo Tolstoy,
Michelangelo, Charles Dickens, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Edgar Allan Poe, and
Isaac Newton had possible symptoms of mental illnesses.
• Beyonce Knowles’ younger sister, Solange, has always been a ball of energy,
but the real culprit is her attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
• British screenwriter and Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson has
occasional mild depression.
• Vivien Leigh, who rose to fame after her portrayal as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone
With the Wind, had symptoms of bipolar disorder before her miscarriage in
1940.
• Hollywood A-listers like Cameron Diaz, Angelina Jolie, Catherine Zeta Jones,
and Kristen Dunst admitted to have suffered mental disorders at one point or
the other in their lives

23. To those who are in emotional crisis and in
need of immediate assistance, please contact
the 24/7 HOPELINE at:
(02) 804-HOPE (4673)
0917 558 HOPE (4673)
2919 (toll-free number for all GLOBE and TM
subscribers)

26. Thank you and Always Be Mindful!