Mental health problems, such as depression, anxiety, distress, and stress are among the greatest causes of suffering worldwide. The United Nations (2020) in its report "COVID-19 and the Need for Action on Mental Health" explores the complex landscape of global mental health, complicated by the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and warns of a probable increase in psychological suffering as well as an increase in suicide rates. In the same context, the World Health Organization-WHO (2020) estimated that half of the population exposed to COVID-19 could suffer some psychopathological symptom. The effects of the pandemic could generate psychosocial disruption that potentially exceeds the management capacity of health systems, and warns that one of the groups at greatest risk of having their mental health affected would be precisely healthcare workers, as they are the ones responding to emergencies and suffering the impact of seeing many of their patients die. According to Márquez (2010:4), several studies on mental health around the world, published by the medical journal The Lancet, report that there is "great ignorance about mental health." Data indicates that mental disorders account for about 14% of illnesses worldwide. They cause 800,000 suicides each year, mostly in the poorest countries. However, 90% of people suffering from these disorders in low and middle-income countries do not receive any type of care. Many diseases in the world are discussed, but the importance of mental health and mental disorders is neglected, especially in poor countries. Defining what a mental disorder is continues to be a difficult problem for psychiatry, medicine, clinical psychology, and medical anthropology. Basically, it refers to behaviors that have been considered "abnormal" and that have been studied and classified as psychopathology; however, what lies beyond madness? Beyond other realities or altered mental health states? The research project will be part of the initiatives of the Public Health Institute of the Faculty of Medicine-PUCE and will collect information on experiences, proposals, and mental health treatments existing in Ecuador that go beyond the biomedical dimension of mental illness. In Ecuador's experience, the "Huerto manías" project will be taken as an example.