10/10/2022
[TRIGGER WARNING: SU***DE]
PRIORITIZE MENTAL HEALTH NOW!
Don't be afraid to ask for assistance. Let's break the stereotype that asking for help indicates weakness.
Today, October 10, we are celebrating World Mental Health Day.
Its purpose is to increase public awareness of mental health concerns worldwide and to organize actions in favor of mental health. However, the discussion of mental health shouldn't be limited to this day or this month only. We must continue to bring forth and raise the discussions of mental health and its importance outside of this day. In light of this, the CASSC calls for additional funding for mental health services as well as various health sectors.
On March 15, 2013, Kristel Tejada, a first-year student of Behavioral Sciences, took her own life due to unpaid tuition from the previous semester. She was forced to file a Leave of Absence and stop her studies. This caused her death, and to this day, justice remains elusive. The continued enforcement of a corrupt and anti-mass education system killed Tejada and other students.
With the continuing academic crisis where UPM students are overwhelmed with their deadlines alongside the effects of anti-student policies which Kristel Tejada and many more students have fallen victim to, while issues such as the lack of resources and funding for mental health in spite of R.A. 11036 or the Mental Health Act due to stigmatization are still pertinent. We, the College of Arts and Sciences Student Council, firmly stand with and join the students in this struggle to junk repressive academic policies, forward the importance of students' mental health, fight for academic ease, and debunk the repressing practice towards mental health.
Struggle for a nationalist, scientific, and pro-student education!
Reject repressive academic policies!
Additional funding for mental health services and the health sector now!
If you need or someone you know requires free psychotherapy assistance, please do not hesitate to contact the UP PGH Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine
https://www.facebook.com/uppgh.dpbm
If you need or someone you know is looking for basic guidance counseling services, please do not hesitate to call or send a message to the UPM Office of Student Affairs
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Telephone: +63 8 8141-249 to 251
Mobile No.: 09754120223
If you or anyone you know needs to speak with someone right now, please get in touch with National Mental Health Crisis Online
https://doh.gov.ph/NCMH-Crisis-Hotline