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on December 26, 2018

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The Emotion of Fear & Mental Health

Photo by Niklas Hamann on Unsplash Almost everyone experiences fear in situations adjudged to be dangerous. In some cases fear is protective because it empowers the individual to come up with psychological and physiological mechanisms to avert a sinister outcome. Fear is an emotional experience with tremendous dramatic manifestations primarily physiological as combat hormones are released. These hormones have immediate reactions on the heart manifesting as increased heart rate that one becomes aware of with attendant feelings of anxiety and tension at times. All these responses are geared towards instituting a response that is defensive and most times proactively protective. The emotion of fear curtailed within the limits of functional equilibrium drives us in the direction of proficiency and excellence so that we will avoid the embarrassment of failure. The menace of diseases and the attendant incapacitation has driven medical science into developing protective st

Culture Related Mental Illness

In medical practice generally and specifically for psychiatry; issues of culture are of central importance. It is difficult for a psychiatrist to have an impactful career without a particular interest in culture. This may explain why the bulk of our quantitative research evidence has not exhaustively communicated the burden of mental illness in Africa and profer effective intervention programmes. This method does not elicit the sociocultural dynamics of a culturally displaced people as a result of colonization with attendant mental health challenges. An anthropological approach to mental health research leveraging on the participant-observation methodology may be a very crucial compliment for a contextual understanding of our mental health challenges. Culture is defined according to most treaties in comparative psychiatry as comprising the ideas, values, habits and other patterns of behaviour which a human group transmits from one generation to another, or as the

Globalization of Values and Mental Health

Globalization is a term in current usage but one whose meaning remains controversial and diverse even among those who invoke it. Within this context of difficulty in precisely defining globalization; AnthonyMcGrew states that globalization constitutes a multiplicity of linkages and interconnect that transcend the nation-states (and by implication the societies) which make up the modern world system. It defines a process through which events, decisions and activities in one part of the world can come to have a significant consequence for individuals and communities in quite distant parts of the globe. There are at least four dimensions of globalization that are crucial in understanding the change represented by this phenomenon namely: Globalization as a historical epoch argues that the phenomenon can be defined in a period of history rather than a theoretical framework. It can also be viewed as a confluence of an economic phenomenon which includes liberalization and deregulati

Mental Health Issues in Palliative Care

The World Health Organization defines palliative care as an approach to care that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing problems associated with life threatening illness, through the prevention and relief of suffering by means of early identification , impeccable assessment and treatment of pain and other problems. The ultimate goal of palliative care is the achievement of the best quality of life for patients and their families. The core principle of this form of care is that it begins at the diagnosis of a life threatening condition, continuing through death and bereavement. It is not just an end of life crisis management but an innovative, proactive and a deliberate care plan. Contemporary palliative care is based on a model developed in response to the needs of cancer patients by the hospice movement in the UK. It aims to make death a pain-free process which includes support, comfort and relief of symptoms, making it possible for people to d

PSYCHOLOGY OF LOOTING BEHAVIOR

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 governors of a planned distribution of the food items befor

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