An estimated 400 million people worldwide suffer from mental or neurological disorders or from psychosocial problems. These include disorders related to alcohol and drug abuse. We should not fear those experiencing a mental illness. It can happen to anyone.


Like physical disorders mental and brain disorders vary in severity. They are, Transient, like an acute stress disorder; Periodic like bipolar disorder, characterized by periods of exaggerated elation followed by periods of depression, and long lasting and progressive. like Alzheimer’s disease.


People with mental illnesses should never suffer alone. People with mental illnesses, disorder or disabilities often have no one to care for them and many are being discriminated.
We must give them the necessary support. It is also important for people to know that many of these mental disorders and diseases are treatable and curable.


There are a number of misconceptions and myths about mental illnesses and mental disorders.

The following are the most common misconceptions and myths that people often associate with mental illnesses and disorders:

Mental and brain disorders just a figment of one’s imagination.

No. they are real illnesses that cause suffering and disability


It is impossible to help someone with a mental or brain disorder.

No, treatments exist. Something can be done for all mental and neurological disorders.

Some people recover completely, others have a more difficult time, but in all cases there can be an alleviation of suffering through different methods. Help can be found from the medical profession at two levels, in the form of general health workers such as doctors and nurses and then with specialized health workers such as psychologists/psychiatrists, for mental disorders and neurologists, for brain disorders.


Mental or brain disorders are brought on by a weakness in character.

No. They are caused by biological, psychological and social factors. Mental illness is one of the major afflictions of mankind that has had little support in the past. During the last half century there has been quite a revolution in the understanding and treatment of major mental illness such as depression, schizophrenia, manic depression and anxiety.Rather than a flaw in the character or a consequence of dysfunctional family, research has shown that mental illness has biological roots.


We have to just lock up persons with a mental illness.

No. People with a mental illness can function and should not be isolated.
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People with a mental disorder need love and attention and care.
We must dare to challenge the myths and the misconceptions

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Religion is the only thing, which can give personal contentment by reducing the influence of material aspects in one's mind

One could get off mental depression by involving himself into religious activities. It's beyond any shadow of doubt that the more religious the less upset the person is because religious person doesn't value the material things. This result in simplicity in one's life makes him a contented human being.

"Women who stop being religiously active are three times more likely to suffer generalised anxiety disorder than women who have always been religiously active," researchers report.

In contrast, the researchers found that men who stopped being religiously active were less likely to suffer major depression compared with men who had always been religiously active.

"One's lifetime pattern of religious service attendance can be related to psychiatric illness,"
study co-author Joanna Maselko said. She is an assistant professor of public health at Temple University. Maselko and her team analysed data from 718 adults who shared details of their religious activity in youth and adulthood. They found that a majority of the respondents changed their level of religious activity between childhood and adulthood.

According to Maselko, the gender differences in the relationship between religious participation and mental health may be tied to social networks. Women are more likely to build them through their religious activities, and then to feel the loss of those networks when they stop attending church and prayers, she explained.

Slightly more than one-third of the women reported always being religiously active. Half said that they had not been active since childhood. About seven percent of the women who were always religiously active could be categorised as having generalised anxiety disorder, compared with 21 percent of those who had ended their religious activities.

"People with widespread anxiety disorder experience worries and concerns out of proportion to their daily lives," according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

The disorder is diagnosed if the worries do not abate after six months.

"Everyone has some spirituality, whether it is an active part of their life or not; whether they are agnostic or atheist or just 'non-practicing.' These choices potentially have health implications, similar to the way that one's social networks do,"

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" Woods are lovely dark and deep But i have promises to keep And miles to go before i sleep "