Category: Mental Illness

What You Should Know? Pregnancy and motherhood are the happiest periods in a womans life. The baby birth can cause a jumble of powerful emotions, right from excitement and joy to anxiety and fear. However, it can also cause in something you might not imagine- depression. Having a baby is very stressful, no matter how…

Poetry has been around for centuries. Going back to the 2nd century. As poetry has been around for some time now. Poetry has a tendency of helping soothe the pain, suffering of mental illness and so much more. In Will a poem a day keep the Doctor away?, talks about the use of poetry and…

Around the world, many mothers have very smooth postpartum experiences, but on the other hand, some tend to have unfavourable physical or mental health complications. When it comes to mental health and postpartum, a common disorder that affects mothers and their infants is postpartum depression. According to Bicking and Moore (2012), about 15 percent of…

Losing a job or dropping out of college is one of the most stressful events of life. But witnessing your career declining or being not able to work and study as a result of mental disease is surely a very big emotional and psychological trauma for one. Schizophrenia is one kind of mental illness that…

Postpartum depression or postnatal depression is a widespread problem occuring in the mother, but also affecting father and child. INTRODUCTION Postpartum depression is one of the most common problems occur in the women after giving birth to their offspring. A study has shown that in developed countries 10-20% of mothers were affected by PPD. It…

Music is all around the world and is a major part of all cultures. It has been around since the beginning of time and it is something every human being can experience on a deep level, bringing forth emotions or memories. Music therapy developed from this connection between emotion and music as a method to…

Recent studies have been designed to investigate the non-pharmalogical treatments in the world of mental disorders. A variety of mental disorders are set to have a (possible) psychotic component: schizophrenia, psychosis, schizoaffective disorder and bipolar disorder. Non-pharmalogical treatments exist of exercise therapy, cognitive therapy, art therapy, relaxation and music therapy. Zooming in on the music…

Introduction: Music therapy is a type of treatment that addresses psychological and social issues among people for all ages. As the brain responds towards sounds, it can act as a mood stimulator. It has the ability to cure both psychological and physical diseases. Music enables to express emotions through which certain chemicals are released in…

Schizophrenia may impact on the individuals and the filmily in many ways. Many people with schizophrenia faces socio economic and emotional stresses (Goldman 1982). This is because an individual may be unable to maintain a work relationship with others due to lack of self-motivation to get up, go to work and take part in day…

The consequences of schizophrenic illness extend beyond the ill individual to the family, as relatives play an important role in caring for the family sufferer with schizophrenia (Zahid and Ohaeri, 2010). It affects 20million people worldwide (Global Burden of Diseases, 2017). Lifetime prevalence of schizophrenia is high, ranging from 0.4 to 1.4%, due to the…