ICYMI: Tackling spike in mental disorders | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News
According to World Health Organisation , Nigeria ranks seventh nation in the world with high caseload of mental illness and 15th in suicide-related cases and has less than 150 psychiatrists with a population of 200 million. It is estimated that fewer than 10 per cent of mentally ill Nigerians have access to the care they need.
“If some kind of trauma happen to one’s grandparents and it is not taken care of, studies show that it would move from one generation to another. The children will experience the pain they were not part of and this would go up to 14 generations.” “Children need to be raised bold and assertive and not timid. Some children can’t even look into the eyes of their teachers to answer questions anymore because of how parents deal with them at home. Some parents contribute to the mental state of a child. Some will go to their schools and hand over a cane to their teachers to beat their children. Parents need to be told why their approach is not better,” he said.
She said: “If you have a wellness centre where youths or anybody can walk in to say ‘I am not acting the way I used to act, something is wrong with me’ and they have medical experts to talk to it will reduce the numbers of people who are walking on the streets. Many of the youths are coming from dysfunctional homes, nobody to talk to about how they feel and are not doing well at school, without anyone knowing what they are going through.
Eniola said: “My dream was to study in the University but it was shattered when I was raped by six men. And at the time my brother raped me and got me pregnant, the dream of going to the University was married. He told my parents that I was pregnant and they turned against me. I got married to another mentally derailed man and eventually I had to suffer so much heartbreak. I was a total mess. I had no education, no job and I was trying to patch things up and hiding from people.
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