MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH

Mental Health Awareness Month intended to support and educate people about the realities of mental health and raises awareness of trauma and the impact it can have on the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of children, families, and communities. Mental health is essential for a person’s overall health. Prevention works, treatment is effective, and people recover from mental disorders and live full and productive lives. Mental Health Month give all of us a valuable opportunity to celebrate the tremendous strides on every country has made in promoting mental health and increasing the public’s knowledge that effective services and supports are available.

Mental Health Awareness is something that can help millions of people who are impacted by mental health issues throughout all over the world. Being aware of your overall health is important so that you can detect any symptoms and seek professional help when necessary. It helps you understand your symptoms, find professional treatment, and perhaps most importantly, break the mental health stigma that leads so many people suffering in secret. Mental health awareness makes all of this information available to you so that you can asses your own risk and find help for any conditions you might have. It doesn’t just help you. Knowing more about mental health disorders can also help your family members, friends, and co-workers.

The goal with a month of MAY, the mental awareness is to help people with mental illnesses understand that they are not alone in their struggles and that getting treatment can make all the difference. If we applied this approach to mental health everyday of the year more and more people could benefit from knowing about these common illnesses. Mental health awareness is a way to make you sure feel supported throughout the entire course of treatment. This month of Mental Health Awareness aims to amplify the message of “You Are Not Alone” a particularly poignant reminders after a year of unprecended challenges.

My Favorite OPM Song

PAUBAYA BY MOIRA DELA TORRE

This song is totally my jam right now! I have it not only because of the artist, Moira Dela Torre, who is one of the great and awesome singer and song writer, but because this song touches my heart so much. The new song “Paubaya” of Moira brought back painful memories of many people in love. Moira Dela Torre the famous singer and song writer who sung the new releases song entitle “Paubaya” which broke my/many hearts. “Titibo-tibo”, “Malaya”, “Tagpuan”, “ikaw at ako”, “Patawad paalam”, and “Mabagal” are just some of the iconic and sensational songs by Moira. She is known for her sweet voice that when matched with those lyrics can punch you right through the heart and pull a string of your emotions.

As the song’s lyrics appear, the video also shows Dela Torre in a gown while she sits on the floor holding a single rose. Her pet dog lies in front of her as well throughout her performance. Along with writing the lyrics, the married couple also arranged the track’s music. Meanwhile musicians Ian Rosales, Luis Cortez, and Luke Jigua played the piano, acoustic guitar and drums, respectively.

Moira Dela Torre sings unreciprocated love in her newest track “Paubaya”, which she wants with her husband, Jason Hernandez. She released the song on her YouTube page starring Joshua Garcia and Julia Barreto on February 14, 2021. As this writing, the MV already has 13.5 millions views and counting on YouTube.

I’d loved this song because it’s perhaps the most heartfelt, authentic, and sincere music videos I’ve seen in a while. How i wish people grasp the importance of what forgiveness is all about. ‘Letting go’ is what Moira Dela Torre’s latest song is all about. It’s about tragic story of loving someone and having to let them go when you are no longer the reason of their happiness. I just realized how the end of the song is trying to tell us to trust the lord. If its painful enough. If it feels wrong. Give up and put everything in God’s hand. The real meaning of “Puabaya” in this song is not about a person.

Use of social media amids calamities

The power of social media platforms to provide granular personalized and  interactive information streams has also changed the relationship between citizens as consumers and contributors to the news, allowing for the increased participatory consumptions of news. A calamities has provided an unfortunate demonstration of  this, as legitimate news has frequently circulated on social media a long time before the news became apparent on traditional media streams.

Social media has played a significant role in mediating the communication of information amid calamities, although coverage of social media is more often that not negative. It become essential to societal responses to the calamities and how social media networks have become an important site for the public and understanding of the use social media amids calamities.

Today social media such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, have become primary sources of information. They are also vehicles for fake news and disinformation. The use of social media is for commercial purposes or for communal purposes. Just like we have seen in our world today with the other crises or calamities, such as earthquake and following  typhoon that caused the nuclear disaster in Leyte in 2022, we see today that people all  over the world reach out close to each other close by and far away through social media to make sense of what is happening.

Apart from all these positive features, social media is also slowly turning out to be a live-saving tool. In theory, it is complete communication model where a user sends out information, receives and responds to it. One of the helps that social media could be done is:

Relief and rescue operations

Apart from improving rescue and relief operations, people can also networking sites to send donations. Facebook users are now seeing a messages at the top of their news feed asking them to donate to international Medical Corps (IMC), which has emergency response teams in regions hardest hit by the calamities. By using the Donate Feature, people can directly donate to MIC to support their relief efforts on the ground, according to Facebook. And also the uses of social media before, during, and after the calamities, uses intersect by focusing on the experiences of journalists who covered the calamities, the people who were affected by it, and individuals that had to take decisions to deal with the problem. Social media has come as handy and of great service amids calamities.