Mental Health
Mental illnesses, a result of malfunction of the brain, are also accompanied by neurological motor problems. Nerves in the cerebral cortex will have suffered damage of some sort or the other either during development, from exposure to environmental pollutants or microbial toxins or due to psychosocial trauma. Personality change or deviant behaviors are the hallmark of many mental illnesses. It is therefore inconceivable that moral education without correction of the underlying problem will reverse the damage that is discernible in mental illnesses. Moral education and discipline are very important in child development as they help shape the character of the person by providing the necessary tools to suppress overt animal instincts and gain emotional control over events. Most mental health or penitentiary institutions may add to the trauma that is already being suffered by the patient and therefore make the condition worse. The anger generated against the society from incarceration...