GurlFriend:
According to the Medical Director, Synapse Services Resource Centre, Dr. Vincent Udenze, one in every four Nigerian is living with one form of mental disorder or another.

Udenze further noted that one in seven persons would suffer a serious episode of mental illness in their lifetime.

Udenze made this startling prognosis at the inauguration of the centre at Lekki, Lagos.

According to the mental health specialist, Nigerians suffer the consequences of mental health problems due to the acute shortage of registered health facilities and the stigma attached to the condition.

Udenze added, “One in every four Nigerian has one form of mental disorder and one in every seven will suffer serious mental health problems. This is a conservative estimate, considering that many Nigerians with mental challenges do not seek help because they do not want people to stigmatise them and their families.”

He also lamented that the majority of the health care institutions in the country paid less attention to mental illness cases.

He said, “Look around, we have got over 50 government hospitals looking after pregnant women. We have thousands of private hospitals and maternal homes for women and children. How many mental health facilities are in Lagos with a population of over 18 million people? They are very few.

“If you provide the environment, facility and make people aware that it exists, you will be surprised at the response you are going to get. The truth is that the government will never be able to do enough in tackling the menace of mental health because it does not have enough resources for that.

“While the government is doing what it can, the private sector, non-governmental organisations, and individuals must come together to address stigma and provide facilities for those who need treatment before they fall into the wrong hands.”

To make a difference, Udenze said the centre would establish more centres in the state, just as its foundation would provide free treatment for indigent patients.

http://www.punchng.com/one-in-four-nigerians-has-mental-disorder-expert/

Na true.

I think the doctor have a point E-boy

the average Nigerian will readily admit to being stressed, but will reject any notion of him suffering from mental disorders but in his ignorance he failes to realise that stress leads to mental illness and there is a blurred line when that transition occurs.


Is spending 4 hours in traffic to waork and another 4 back , getting home to no light, no petrol, worrying about school fees, medical bills, money for aso ebi etc all under the blazing sun not enough to put one in a permanent state of stress?


http://www.helpguide.org/articles/stress/stress-symptoms-causes-and-effects.htm


"When you repeatedly experience the fight or flight stress response in your daily life, it can raise blood pressure, suppress the immune system, increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, speed up the aging process and leave you vulnerable to a host of mental and emotional problems."

so dont laugh at the doctors comments, as a Nigerian living in Nigeria, you are already on your way to mental illness without realising it

D doctor myt b under dat category too

Lie.................

garfield16:


Insanity is when you didn't realise I was joking even when I wrote "just joking" ....then again maybe that's just poor education.

Run along with your cacophony, I am well lettered and I understand only the ignorant always feel others are within their echelon. Steer clear of my radar, cos you are beneath me in every level of life and I mean "every level of life and living".

so on every page of a nairaland thread, at least 8 MAD PPL dy post....no wonder

Atlantian:
Run along with your cacophony, I am well lettered and I understand only the ignorant always feel others are within their echelon. Steer clear of my radar, cos you are beneath me in every level of life and I mean "every level of life and living".

sounds like you are stressed and well on your way to insanity

skylowlow:
Hian!!

So we are all kolo

True true u dey among

U mean Nigeria or U wanted to say Biafra

garfield16:


sounds like you are stressed and well on your way to insanity

And this is fallacy of hasty generalization, you claim to be educated but your writing parades absurdity. I wouldnt say you are insane, but may be you are. Can you divert your negativity to the cause of it ? I dont need this negative energy. Run along

prettythicksme:
True true u dey among

Ewooo!!

you still dey nairaland

MadCow1:
So some people wey dey call me Mad Cow follow me dey Mad too..





Shey una dey see una life..

Last last you've been justified....

No be Craze dey make somebody stealing billions to build house for his son, and buying several landed properties to himself alone? Only in #Nigeria

hadura29:


Last last you've been justified....

Abi o!


Tooo many undercover madcows in the society..

skylowlow:


Ewooo!!

you still dey nairaland

yea oooo

No be Craze dey make people we voted for employing their children's children, and families and calling them recruitment of Specialists?

dem plenty for Nairaland, you shall know them by their comments and responses.

No be craze dey make pastors/Imams that preach "thou shall not fear" , and the same people will be preaching with several police mopol watching their neck in order to shield them from death...

MadCow1:
So some people wey dey call me Mad Cow follow me dey Mad too..





Shey una dey see una life..

Last last you've been justified.... I am happy for you...

Atlantian:
And this is fallacy of hasty generalization, you claim to be educated but your writing parades absurdity. I wouldnt say you are insane, but may be you are. Can you divert your negativity to the cause of it ? I dont need this negative energy. Run along

If you don't need the negative energy, why respond, could it be you are indeed unknowingly a candidate of an underlying psychological illness and hence you need to respond? I hope you know low self esteem and loneliness are also (or can also lead to) mental illnesses.

Na craze dey make u to be smiling in suffering(no food and money in hand) even when u don't have hope in anything, even in God because u don't have genuine relationship with Him. Only in #Nigeria

Now you understand why there are many mad people around... Although well dressed

Na craze dey make Nairalanders insulting and abusing one another leaving the main offenders that caused their disagreement, (that may be Government or Personalities)...

Na Craze makes people we voted into government to leave national interest but now pursuing personal/family interests...

garfield16:



If you don't need the negative energy, why respond, could it be you are indeed unknowingly a candidate of an underlying psychological illness and hence you need to respond? I hope you know low self esteem and loneliness are also (or can also lead to) mental illnesses.

I am not lonely, I think you have to experience it to know it. So in essence you are experienced in loneliness and insanity to make that claim. Now I know I have been chatting with a complete mad man. Enough!

Atlantian:
I am not lonely, I think you have to experience it to know it. So in essence you are experienced in loneliness and insanity to make that claim. Now I know I have been chatting with a complete mad man. Enough!

you are still answering? is this not the true manifestation of mental illness, you say someone is disturbing you but you keep inviting him to disturb you? Can you now see the doctor has a point? Not all mentally ill people are naked in the street.....many wear suit and tie, skirt and and high heels and have decent jobs.


check yourself o, you are showing signs

you are mentally ill

Burger01:
This doctor has chronic mental disorder for saying this rubbish

prettythicksme:
yea oooo

Can normal human being fight at filling station, fight to fetch water from bore hole, fight online on nairaland, fight offline on the street,goes to school without shoes throughout, carrying crude oil from their country to refine in another country and later bring it back to sell, voted in animal scientist as president to manage humans . Having 2 Choices to select from as Governor, one a thief/killer and the other a religious fanatics/selfish man.

garfield16:


you are still answering? is this not the true manifestation of mental illness, you say someone is disturbing you but you keep inviting him to disturb you? Can you now see the doctor has a point? Not all mentally ill people are naked in the street.....many wear suit and tie, skirt and and high heels and have decent jobs.


check yourself o, you are showing signs

dat means u re crazy

lilyheaven:
you are mentally ill

..are you the doctor that said that rubbish? You are indeed mentally dead