Question

research article on culture and mental health in nigeria in detaila

Answer 1

- culture can influence how people can describe and feel about their symptoms . It depends on how people choose to recognize that is only physical changes or mental changes or both .

- Understanding mental illness in Nigeria is something that has to be taken contextually and historically .

- There is large miscoception and misinformation on the context of subject amongst nigerian.

- There is general belief that supernatural forces , evil spirit or even God causes the mental illness .

- This belief has made nigerian mentally ill.

- Historically the people with mental illness were hanged or burned and that social attitude made more worsen the attitude of society .

- This soietial attitude lead more the mental illness belief worst .

- Also there is lack of medical facility to treat the mental illness due to financial codition . And some traditional unknowingly people prolong the the illness due to lack of education and standardization of their treatment .

- Another barrier is non health nature of mental health service in nigeria.

- Traditional healers are essentially the mental health system .

- Rural area in Nigeria suffers more from mental illness due to lack of knowledge and traditional healers and societial attitudes .

- There is less medical facility to treat the mental illness , awareness amongst nigerian should be the approach to avoid unneccesary prolonging treatement by traditional healer for mental illness due to such cultural beliefs and attitude .