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 may lead the victim to violent behaviors and substance abuse, as it were, to 'calm the nerves' and this will promote violent behaviors in its own right.

In this context, it is important to look at behavioral problems as mainly health problems, and be patient with sufferers, who themselves are patients and have little control over their conditions. Causes must be fully diagnosed and appropriate treatment given.

Dr Oliver Verbe Birnso
Mental Health Through Will-Training

Comments

  1. UnknownNovember 15, 2010 at 12:38 PM

    Taadom,
    Your explanation is done in such simple language that anyone can understand without having prior medical or scientific knowledge
    Keep on with the good work of enlightening the ignorant.
    Senior Citizen Evans.

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  2. Oliver Verbe BirnsoNovember 15, 2010 at 5:43 PM

    Thanks, Mr. Evans,

    Knowledge and education are the key to wiping out ignorance and preventing many hazards in life.

    I took an oath to saving lives and am happy to have taken up the challenge as a vocation.

    Dr Oliver Birnso

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