Mental illness in Uganda: millions abandoned without diagnosis, drugs or support
Mental illness in Uganda: millions abandoned without diagnosis, drugs or support
Around 14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country’s total health expenditure goes towards mental health.
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There’s a severe shortage of drugs, trained specialists and facilities while patients also face an uphill battle to…
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I pray they get the help they need this is just not here it’s Everywhere and then people don’t want to accept 😭what about Counseling what about that u can’t just lock people up that’s not supporting his needs 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
👨🏿🎤His rizz is unprecedented🏆. His immaculate drip…so voluminous 💧; that it alone accounts for the village's crop surviving the gyat drought this summer 👨🏿🌾. He "APimpname'Slickback" slides 🕺🏿into the town square with his balenciaga garbage bag 💰 sack filled with traditional herbs 🪴 to ward away the no game spirits of his ancestor's haters…👻
"Yeah I took your girls and put the shorties 👯♀️ in my herb sack. They mine by law as they were the property of my dead father, you fools. " What U-gan-da 🇬🇳🌍🇿🇦do about it⛹🏿♂️? "
It's so weird how these people are mentally living in the dark ages. It's like progression has come so slow for them when it comes to believing in witch doctors, demons, etc.
Autism
Walk it off
Mental illness runs rampant in the U.S. They walk the streets hurting innocent people. This problem needs to be addressed and find ways of helping mental problems.
😢 My heart grieves for them. How sad, to be locked away because of illness.prayers that they get the help they need.❤
THOSE POOR KIDS, IT BREAKS MY HEART THERE’S NO HELP.
IT WAS SAD TO SEE THE YOUNG MAN IN A HUT, CAGED LIKE THAT,
I UNDERSTAND WHY BUT IT’S STILL SO SAD.
Why can we not work this out??? The poor HUMAN RACE CANNOT WORK OUT HOW TO ADDRESS THIS WORLWIDE PROBLEM. AT LEAST PROVIDE A SAFE PLACE AND COMMUNITY EFFORTS TO SOLVE THIS LONG TERM PROBLEM.
Very cruel very
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This is heartbreaking he is autistic
And these are the people we are supposed to take into first world countries? No thanks, we've got enough problems already.
Who knows this family and where they stay in Uganda?
Take him to kakande MINISTRIES church .
Church of Prophet Samuel Kakande
Wandageya ku biri he will fine
Twahala has autism and unfortunately he wasn't diagnosed early…
He needs to be given a motorbike so he can fix it up I think that would help him
Locking up is going to make him even more crazy 😢
Thats actually sad. He cant be locked away because of his mental illness.
This is due to colonialism, slavery and lack of reparations
It's always another Country's problems they call us evil colonials and then want us to care about what's happening in an independent Country's health system & corruption is never to blame? Take a hike
THE MIND AND THE BODY ARE ONE
It’s easy to look at a sad ☹️report like this and think “…how much better of else are”😎. I am a GP. Mental health programmes here in the UK are disgustingly and exceedingly insufficiently funded at least when compared to physical healthcare facilities. The poor little lad in the report is likely on the autism spectrum, non-verbal. I have patients waiting with little or no recourse to any alternative resources, 2-3 years just for an initial mental health nurse lead autism assessment and a diagnosis. It’s truly astonishingly appalling 😱😱😱
You can’t still be talking 60 years later about the failings of the colonial governments.
In urban areas, mental health literacy is available the problem comes in with the rural areas where by most of the people still belief in traditionalists and are not likely to change their mentally in the nearby future….
The issue is Uganda has hard 30 years of bad governance. Politicians stealing money to flow right and center. This has deprived many medical drugs and heath facilities and care.
The UK offers no help for people with mental health problems. I know this from experience it is left to the families. If you are british socially, economically and environmentally deprived the UK is worse than a 3rd world country when it comes to mental health.
Take him to be prayed for in kampala prophet Samuel kakande kubiri mulago
So sad !
Poor babies, being a mother myself can't imagine what these parents going through and these children. 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
all those churches and nobody is cured
Bring back Idi Amin !
He would soon sort this problem out !
. . . staked to the ground, stomach slit, heated metal bowl placed above the hungry rat resting on your stomach :
the only way it can escape is through your stomach !
( mental illness ? What mental illness ? ! )
I have mild depression mental illness is real
This is a terrible situation for the Mentally ill and for the Famalies who have no support.The Government needs to realize Mental Health is just as important and invest more money .Locking them up does no good and doesn t change there situation, normally making it worse .Very sad.
Call the BLM mobile.. no..huh..didn't think so. No whites involved.
Very sad that our country has no facilities and not understanding
My heart aches
But where’s the diversity?
This tragic film needs more context, I think. Uganda has a population of about 49 million, and this film says about "14 million people are thought to be living with mental illness in Uganda, yet just one percent of the country's total health expenditure goes towards mental health. " What does "are thought" mean, especially using one tragic and gratuitous extreme example. Perhaps this was a section of a longer in depth film? It's confusing in many ways to me, snippets of "Traditional Medicine" and Religious "Healing" churches, all mixed together, without clear direction. Dire poverty, lack of education, and funding as government priority? Which? All?
The total Health budget in 2021 was 5.1% of national budget. (UNICEF).
I think western people think they can “cure” mental illness is delusional. Do you know how complex the brains are and how little we know about it? Western medicine may help, but it is definitely not a certain solution. It is still the same western superior view that did trust all traditional methods. If western medicine and mental health science is a sure bet, how could people not able to prevent mass shooting and serial murderers?
One dilemma of mental health science is that we cannot do experiments on people to repeat hypothesis. We can use some animals, but the differences are huge. So many theories are based on observations. How could these observations be more trustworthy than tradition observations that been happening for thousands of years?
I am not against scientific study, but we can not just blindly trust all results.
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Bring him to Britain for treatment.