2. What is mental health?
Mental health - includes
our emotional,
psychological, and social
well-being. It affects
how we think, feel, and
act.
3. What is mental illnesses?
Mental illnesses -
are health conditions
involving changes in
emotion, thinking or
behavior (or a
combination of these).
4. What is types of mental illness?
•mood disorders (such as depression or bipolar disorder)
•anxiety disorders
•personality disorders
•psychotic disorders (such as schizophrenia)
•eating disorders
•trauma-related disorders (such as post-traumatic stress disorder)
•substance abuse disorders
5. What is types of mental illness?
Mood disorders - mood
disorder is a mental health class
that health professionals use to
broadly describe all types of
depression and bipolar
disorders.
6. What is types of mental illness?
Anxiety disorders - Anxiety
makes it difficult to get
through your day. Symptoms
include feelings of
nervousness, panic and fear
as well as sweating and a
rapid heartbeat.
7. What is types of mental illness?
Personality disorders - is a
type of mental disorder in
which you have a rigid and
unhealthy pattern of
thinking, functioning and
behaving.
8. What is types of mental illness?
Psychotic disorders -
are severe mental disorders
that cause abnormal thinking
and perceptions.
9. What is types of mental illness?
Eating disorders - any of a
range of psychological
disorders characterized by
abnormal or disturbed eating
habits (such as anorexia
nervosa).
10. What is types of mental illness?
Trauma and stressor-related
disorders - are a group of
emotional and behavioral
problems that may result from
childhood traumatic and
stressful experiences.
11. What is types of mental illness?
Substance use disorder (SUD)
- is a mental disorder that
affects a person's brain and
behavior, leading to a person's
inability to control their use of
substances such as legal or
illegal drugs, alcohol, or
medications.
14. What is Philippine Mental Health Act?
Philippine Mental Health Act of 2018 or RA 11036 -
Under its provisions, the Philippine Mental
Health Act protects the rights of patients as
follows: ‘a right to freedom from discrimination,
right to protection from torture, cruel,
inhumane, and degrading treatment; right to
aftercare and rehabilitation; right to be
adequately informed about psychosocial and
clinical assessments; right to participate in the
treatment plan to be implemented; right to
evidence-based or informed consent; right to
confidentiality; and right to counsel, among
others’.
