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Correlation between depression and schizophrenia

Schizophrenia is a chronic mental disorder with affirmative and harmful symptoms.   Affirmative symptoms involve thought disorder, hallucinations, movements disorder and delusion, while the harmful symptoms are known as the deficiency of standard behaviours which cannot only be found in schizophrenia but also depression. Depression is a common serious mood disorder, it has common features […]

Why are women more prone to mental illness?

Mothers are the salt and the change that the world needs. They work very hard to treat their entire family well with consideration, understanding and cooperation.  Mothers are good listener, blessed with a gentle heart to give comfort and support to children, even at the expense of their happiness. No matter how pre-occupied mothers may […]

Dementia

What Nigerians need to know about  Alzheimer “dementia”  diseases and how they can provide the elderly with early intervention with a functional approach. Many Nigeria age parent suffered from dementia which prompt mistreatment from society. Dementia is a neurologically degenerative condition and we tagged them with witches or wizards because of our ignorance about how […]

Anxiety disorders

Anxiety usually occurred at some point in our lives. Anxiety is a normal reaction to stress, heartbreaking, shifting of employment, financial difficulties, marriage concern attention ; can be beneficial in some situations. It can alert us to dangers and help us prepare and pay attention. It turns Anxiety disorders from the moment those normal life […]

Abnormality

Lot of things are normal in Nigeria because of the structure of our society. According to (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), to distinguish between insane and sane people we need to acknowledge the cultural and subculture factors which make it really difficult to identify abnormal people in Nigeria society because everything seems really normal to Nigerians.

Nigeria conceptualization of mental illness and the World Health Organization’s definition

2% in 5% people are facing mental illness problem, while 4% in 5% find it very difficult to maintain a good mental health in Nigeria, but due to the stigma attached, they are counteracts from seeking treatments and good life choices, which has denied millions of promising young ones the opportunity to solid life chances to plan ahead for their future, the ability to be productive and privileges to impart the society.