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Can Music Affect Your Emotions?

on August 09, 2018

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REFERRAL OF A VIOLENT MENTALLY ILL

This aspect of the care of the mentally ill has become very important because of the likely increase in the incidence of new cases as a consequence of economic recession. Some of the new cases may get very violent which could put the relatives in a difficult situation as they may not know the necessary steps to take. We have procedures like chanting incantations, prayers to cast out the devils that have taken possession of the patient so that they can be disarmed. Exorcism as a preferred method cuts across Christianity, Islam and the African traditional religion especially for the violent ones. This also makes them more prone to inhuman interventions that can shorten their lives. Apart from prayers, some are starved and flogged to take the demons out. The practice of hospitalizing the mentally ill is a very old one usually called mad houses. These institutions were only a little better than prisons. The patients were chained to beds consisting o...

PSYCHOLOGY OF LOOTING BEHAVIOUR

As a result of the fallout of ENDSARS protest especially after the Lekki incidence, hoodlums and miscreants hijacked the protest which resulted into looting of governments warehouses, looting of private houses of individuals and destruction of public properties as well as the burning of private business buildings which later spread across the nation. Opinions have been sharply divided as some explained that the looters acted rightly by “possessing their possessions” while others argued that the looters committed crime for illegally breaking into warehouses. There are arguments that the looting was necessitated by the hoarding of COVID-19 palliatives since May/April in the midst of hunger. Actually some of the food items in certain warehouses were already going bad and was quite shocking to see the volume of food items in several warehouses across the country. Although explanations were given by the gover...

WHEN THE MENTALLY ILL ENTERS THE MARKET SQUARE

Some state governments have attempted to confront the issue of homelessness with approaches that may not invariably deliver the expected wholesome benefits characterized by spurious ad hoc rehabilitation programs of a few weeks with the ultimate goal of repatriation to families or state of origin which is appalling when these homeless individuals are Nigerians. Another knotty issue in some of these rehabilitation programs is the theoretical differentiation between the homeless mentally ill and the homeless destitute persons with an unnecessary focus on the former. For me; it is a smart way of avoiding responsibility since given the evidence linking homelessness to poverty and social disadvantage, it is hardly surprising that homeless people report higher rate of mental illness relative to the general population. Alcoholism and drug dependency are present in as many as two-thirds of men and a third of homeless women. Co mo...

OUR POLITICIANS ARE NOT MENTALLY ILL

This topic came up in my mind after I read an article ‘Are Nigeria politicians crazy’? What is quite obvious concerning Nigeria is that she is blessed with Natural resources and some folks add that we are blessed with human resources a point I disagree with? The fact that we have numerous professionals, technologists and even academicians who possible may be literate but obviously not educated hence does not confer on Nigeria the status of being blessed with human resources. The value of human resource in any society is the caliber of mental capital it can deliver. We have a critical mass of human resources with some literacy but not essentially educated. We have acquired some knowledge in a manner that did not interrogate our culture hence the disconnect between our elites’ claim to education and their leadership failures in all ramifications. Our politicians do not have mental illness; they have only learnt ...

WIDOWHOOD CULTURE AND MENTAL HEALTH

The death of a spouse is one of the most devastating, distressing and psychologically traumatic experience. Possibly because of the quality of intimacy that the marital relationship entails such that the surviving spouses commonly experience changes in psychological well-being, evidenced by the increased prevalence of depression in this cohort. Grief is the involuntary, emotional and related behavioral response specific to the loss, whereas mourning is the voluntary social expression of that loss while bereavement captures the overall experience of the loss .Women are not only more at risk of bereavement than men, but they also appear to suffer from its psychiatric complications more often. Men, especially younger ones show less acceptance of their loss and turn to other romantic relationships sooner especially in a patriarchal society like ours hence we hear more of agitations to protect widows more often than widowers although elderly widowers may also be more at ris...

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