Mentally ill and their rights

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Title: Mentally ill and their rights

Date 23/01/2007 Time: 2:30-5:00pm

Issues discussed

Challenges

-Stigmatization and discrimination

-Neglect

-Lack of support from the government

-Lack of drugs

They are misunderstood and people think they are pretending

-People think it is a disease of people who are bewitched

-Isolation from friends, family members

-Lack of support.

Consequences

-Loss of jobs

-loss of homes

-Depression

-Separation

There are a number of factors that cause psychiatric and these include;

-War

-HIV/AIDS

-Genocide

-Discrimination

-Poverty

-Mistreatment

-Illness

Mental illness were categorized in various categories

-Stress and depression

-Psychosis

-Schizophermia

It was noted that even the care takers also encounter the challenges in their course of giving care to th mentally ill.

Recommendations

-Government to assist in form of drugs

-Mentally ill want to be accepted as human beings in the society

-People should understand that mental illness is like any other disease and they can positively contribute to the development of the society.

By Rose Njoroge