WHY MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS: LVNA Have Reached Out Strengthening & Empowering Mental Health Awareness with Kylie Versoza
Kylie Versoza is known to be the Miss International 2016, a beauty queen, an actress, a model, and an active advocate of Mental Health in the Philippines. Kylie openly spoke about her journey dealing with depression to the public when she was diagnosed clinically depressed and her personal experiences on how she struggled to cope before, she has also been very vocal in her platform in raising awareness for mental health which passionately motivated her to make a commitment to building her own mental health community online which is the Mental Health Matters (MHM). Mental Health Matters was established in 2017 and started as an online support group which is now become a non-government organization extending its community all over the Philippines to reach more people, aiming to raise mental health awareness and break the stigma and misconceptions. Since then, Kylie never stops to empower and supporting those people who have been battling with depression using her voice, platform, and influence. By sharing helpful information about mental health, giving monthly talks to different universities and corporate institutions all over the Philippines, and quarterly holding support groups with trained volunteer therapists to achieve and obtain her goal to make people understand more about mental health and to open other people's minds to treating mental health seriously.
At Kylie Versoza’s recent thanksgiving party on November 23, 2022, where she celebrated her milestone and award as Best Actress representing the Philippines on DIAFA from her film The Housemaid. LVNA By Drake Dustin has sent a kind and humble donation through the Stay Brilliant Foundation, a built foundation by the LVNA brand to toughen and build up the help and charity that the brand can give to support different institutions and organizations. LVNA awarded a kind amount that can be helpful to the future endeavors of Mental Health Matters (MHM), Kylie’s community to show the brand’s support not just to Kylie Versoza but also in raising mental health awareness. The LVNA brand also strongly believes that mental health matters, and want to be an instrument to extend a helping hand to other people who are suffering and struggling to cope, being part of the community that advocates mental health awareness. “One of the things that helped me get over my depression was having a good support system” Kylie shared this in one of her videos on YouTube, she said that it is very important having a good support system when you’re struggling with depression, someone who can actually understand about the importance of mental health and the seriousness of depression.
LVNA extends help to this community with a genuine heart and intention to also strengthen and empower the understanding of emotional, psychological, and social well-being. Mental health awareness has a vital role in society as it can be a key to breaking the stigma on mental health issues and also, it is something that can help people to gain and acquire a better understanding regarding factors, effects, and symptoms of mental illness. Through this, it can also encourage people to seek help when needed, making them feel that their emotions and feelings are valid. Most importantly, to help people who are impacted by different mental health conditions to know what actions they must do and how are they going to help themselves overcome it, to make them feel that they are not alone in their battle. To be part of the Mental Health Matter’s advocacy is an opportunity to make a change and a brilliant future for a lot of people, something that the LVNA brand and the Stay Brilliant Foundation have always been believing and aiming for.
The LVNA brand is proud and elated to support the organizations and communities that are making a difference like Mental Health Matters, the organization built by the beauty queen Kylie Versoza. She is truly a bright star who can bring light to other’s darkness and colors to other people’s paleness. LVNA By Drake Dustin believes that everyone must shine brightly with their light, living a life that they deserve; free from the restrictions and disturbance of depression, anxiety, stress, and other mental health conditions that affect the individual's cognition, emotional control, and life in general.
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LVNA is hoping to be able to continuously share something with Mental Health Matters to empower and help more people, and also to extend more help through the LVNA’s foundation, the Stay Brilliant Foundation to different institutions, communities, and organizations who are aiming to make a change and passionately advocating mental health awareness like the Mental Health Matters built by Kylie Versoza. With building a good relationship sharing the same goal and aspiration, LVNA By Drake Dustin is delighted to continue with a more brilliant mission of offering a helping hand like this between different institutions and organizations that are needing help.
To be aware that mental health matters where it needs attention and response, and that there are people who are actually struggling with mental health conditions is enough reason to make a change, and continue to reach more people and give them information that can be helpful for them to grasp and treat mental health as important as individual’s physical health. With this common goal, anyone can contribute by making a difference by just taking the time to truly understand mental health, express empathy to others, and can open their minds to accept this essential information. There are truly good people who are always willing to help up to the extent of their capabilities and this is also what the LVNA brand and the Stay Brilliant Foundation are aiming for and always holding with the desire to continue to empower those who are in need. To give voices to those who are voiceless, and to give a spotlight to those people who are unseen. With the brilliant hope and purpose of Mental Health Matters, Kylie Versoza has proved that she is a true queen, bright as a diamond, born with true beauty, a kind heart, and aspirations to help people and make a change for a brighter future.
Your help can make a difference. To reach out for kind donations in raising awareness for mental health, don’t hesitate to contact Mental Health Matters and Stay Brilliant Foundation.