From Awareness To Action: MindNation and Belle De Jour 'You Got This' drives hope for mental health in the Philippines

Hundreds gathered towards a safe space to share stories, build connections, and learn how they can improve their well-being. 

Last October 20-22, MindNation and Belle De Jour Power Planner held its inaugural on-ground event "You Got This! Creating Safe Spaces, Crafting Tomorrows" at the East Wing of the Shangri La Plaza. The event aimed to celebrate World Mental Health Day, raise mental health awareness and drive action towards investing in better well-being in communities and workplaces.

MindNation uses Qualtrics CoreXM to help improve workplace mental health

Company creates bespoke mental health and well-being support programs for employers across Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America

Deep insight into mental health challenges across industries and geographies helps company to raise awareness and drive action

Qualtrics (Nasdaq: XM), the leader and creator of the Experience Management (XM) category, today announced that MindNation, pioneer provider of data-driven mental health and well-being support programs, is using Qualtrics CoreXM™ to continually improve the support and services it delivers focused on improving the mental health of people accessing its programs across Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, and Latin America.

Congresswoman Rida Robes Advocates Mental Health- Named Ambassador Against Cyber-bullying

Depression and mental health is a rising global concern to humanity and many of us have faced or know people who are going through it. This what Lone district of San Jose Del Monte congresswoman Rida Robes wants to address to congress and to the public. She admits that she went through depression and cyber-bullying because of her looks before.

She also shared that there was reports of suicides from a public school in the city, all teenagers and died within a year. This was alarming for her and knew that there is a need to provide help to those who are experiencing depression and cyber-bullying. In one of her recent privilege speech titled “Changing Faces,” she discussed the “changed faces” of the Filipino youth citing that suicidal teenagers usually ranges from 13 to 25 years old.

Understanding Depression: What We Need To Know

It should be a wake up call for all of us that depression is just not a fad or a choice one would engage if they wanted to. Depression is far more complicated than we expected. And it already took many lives and it is not exclusive to a specific age group, race, gender, or social status.

Since Robin Williams' took his own life in 2014, other big stars like singers Chris Cornell and Chester Bennington also ended their lives in similar fashion.

In the Philippines, depression was on the news because of now controversial remarks by comedian, TV host, and actor Joey De Leon. 

“SUICIDE INCORPORATED” --- A Play To Help Raise Awareness All Set To Open On July 15

How can a theater company help raise mental health awareness by staging a play that tackles the theme of depression, suicidal tendencies and suicide itself?

Catch Twin Bill Theater’s eye-opening production aimed to shed light and raise awareness on mental health issues to its audiences in “SUICIDE INCORPORATED”--- a 2010 tragicomedy by brilliant Off- Broadway playwright Andrew Hinderaker.

Imagine a world where a company that edits suicide notes exists. Now imagine being part of that company. SUICIDE INCORPORATED centers around a company that makes money by drafting suicide notes. The business is Hallmark gone Wall Street, turning a profit by bullishly pushing its clients to perform the unspeakable. The CEO speaks, in an advertiser’s tongue, about cornering the market by targeting those suicide victims least likely to leave notes: Men. It turns out all these men are emotional mice when it comes to discussing matters of the self.