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Running Head: MENTAL DISORDER
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Mental Disorder
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MENTAL DISORDER
The article in the New York Times provides a clear picture of the mental disorder
(BENEDICT, 2018). The scientific methods that are available today have made it possible to
identify the people with this disorder. Moreover, the discoveries of the medicines which are used
to treat the victims are given to such patients. However, the treated patients according to the
article get better but the society keeps them in segregation to ensure that they fully recover
before they get integrated back in the society.
Scientifically, the people who are kept in chains for long after they are given the
treatment of the mental disorder (Harris, 2013) in West Africa, the Western Psychiatry
volunteered to offer help to the victims who are in the hidden camps to ensure that they fully
recover and get released from the camp and get integrated back in the community. The experts
new well as opposed to the religious leaders in West Africa, the reason why the patients had not
fully recovered into normality even after the treatment. The problem of psychosis (Lecomte et al,
2016), which is a condition that makes a patient lose contact of the reality, was what would blunt
the symptoms of hallucinations and faulty thinking of the patients.
Essentially, it is common sense for the religious leaders to assume that the patients who
have just been released from the medication to have fully recovered (Harris, 2013). In the
article, the patients are said to be accepted back in the community when they were believed to be
lucid, the state at which they are felt to have come back to their senses and they can live in
harmony with the people (Lecomte et al, 2016). Their segregation is on issues of stigma in the
society for patients with mental illness (Long, 2014).
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The chaining of the mentally ill patient is belief-based. The religious leader says he
believes that prayer and fasting are the best treatment for the mental problems. Essentially, he
runs a camp where the patients are shackled for a given period of time for recovery for the
mental problem. Finally, based on the information in the article, the period upon which one is
likely to have fully recovered is unknown. A scientific research on the exact time that a mental
disorder should be carried, this will provide the information for the physicians and they give the
community leaders like those in the article the exact time they ought to chain a patient if they
have to, instead of just keeping them without and releasing them randomly and also reduce
prolonged stigma.
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References
BENEDICT CAREY (JAN. 17, 2018), Given Medicine, the Patients Got Better. They Remained
in Shackles Anyway. Retrieved. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/health/mental-disorderschains-westafrica.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience&action=click&contentCollection=s
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Harris, W. V. (2013). Mental disorders in the classical world. Leiden: Brill.
Long, V. (2014). Destigmatising mental illness?: Professional politics and public education in
Britain 1870-1970.
Lecomte, T., Leclerc, C., & Wykes, T. (2016). Group CBT for psychosis: A guidebook for
clinicians.
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