Question

Critically analyze the cultural factors that may affect perception and treatment of psychological disorders in your culture.

Answer 1

One of the most important things about the psychological disorders is that it was treated as the curse from god and this would mean that people in the past disregarded and disowned those who were mentally affected. Although it has changed, religions still teach people that mental disorders are work of the evil spirits. Secondly, psychological disorders were also treated as deviant behaviours due to their inability to live and function normally in the society. People with mental disorders would struggle hard to think, feel and behave normally and for this reason, people would treat them as deviant. Thirdly, because of this reason, people would fear them and because of their they are unpredictable, they would be treated as dangerous. This would mean that people wouldn’t know how a mentally unstable person would behave in some instances. Finally, they would be discriminated in all avenues in life such as, employment.

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