A young man jumping from pillar to pillar on the edge of a mountain road. [Getty Images] June is the men mental health awareness month, providing us with a chance to discuss and analyse the barriers towards health seeking among men. Social culturally the onus is on the male gender to lead, provide, protect and more. yet in the midst of all these expectations and pressure, the society doesn’t expect any semblance of vulnerability. Men are generally brought up with lots of masculine hype, and this contributes to the prevailing stigma towards seeking mental health services, since this is considered…
Author: By Mugambi Mbaabu
Congregation with their pastors at a revival. [Courtesy] Achieving a mentally sound and stable individual is a multiplicity of components, and spirituality is one of them. Spirituality has a significant and growing recognised role in psychotherapy, with unique contributions to the therapy process. Spirituality is a personal or individual search for meaning, purpose, and connection to something greater, not necessarily tied to a specific system of religion or deity. It is a flexible process guided by internal experience, intuition, and self-discovery, with no fixed rules or required ritual, hence encouraging personal exploration. Spirituality works from the inside out, with inner beliefs and experiences shaping our outer actions. Spirituality…
The mental disorders of psychosis and schizophrenia have always been discussed interchangeably even in the medical circles, but there exists a clear delimitation between the two. Psychosis refers to a group of symptoms that indicate loss of touch with reality and usually presents with symptoms like delusions which is a strong false belief, hallucinations. It is characterised by seeing and hearing things that are not present, and can occur in a number of mental health disorders including; substance use, severe depression, schizophrenia and other medical issues. Schizophrenia on the other hand is a distinct mental disorder characterized by the mentioned…