Essay - Psychological Therapy in Nigeria Person Who Suffers from Major Depressive...

Psychological Therapy in Nigeria person who suffers from Major Depressive Disorder has impaired quality of life and functioning at home, work and socially... women have double the risk... while rising levels of urbanization increase the risk by 40%." (Kau-nu 2007).

Prevalence of Depression in the Developing World

***** World Health Organization warned that depression could become a main cause of disability ***** the second leading health problem in the world by the year 2020 (Acharya 2001). In 1996, Dr. Vikram Patel ***** ***** London Institute of Psychiatry conducted a study on the link among poverty, ine***** and mental ***** in the develop*****g *****, using the Indian state ***** Goa as a c*****e. He found that more than 40% of the adults receiving primary health care in cl*****ics in the state had common ***** disorder, such as anxiety or cl*****ical *****. He also discovered that women were twice to thrice ***** likely ***** develop common mental *****s than men. Patel concluded ***** relative poverty, disability and gender were linked with the mental dis*****ders and that poverty is an important "r*****k factor." Depression can develop or be triggered by adverse life-events, including physical illness, ho***** problems and joblessness. Mental disorders ***** develop in either gender, at any age or background. He ***** concluded th***** poverty, war and displacement can determine or influence the start, severity and duration of these ***** (Acharya).

Wife Battering, a Common Pr*****ctice survey ***** 450 married Nigerian men and wo*****, aged 15 to 50, revealed that wife battering is a common practice (Bandru 2004). It found ***** the ***** tends to occur early in a marriage. Of ***** respondents, 35% of the men admitted to have beaten ********** wives, while 41% of the wives ***** having been assaulted by their husbands *****ten in drunkenness. Nigerian marriages are polygynous, i.e., men have sex with ********** other than ***** wives. Polygynous ***** are said to be more prone to conflict. The survey also discovered that women with higher education qualification were subjected to *****atings more than those with lower or no education (Bandru).

***** is common agreement that women are at a ***** risk f***** depression (Ach*****rya *****). Mental ***** experts, ***** Dr. Patel, acknowledged a huge amount of ***** ***** Nigerian women. Women tend to internalize situations. Other experts view depression and low self-esteem as originating from the ***** environment. ***** ***** raised without a sense of identity *****nd ***** to domestic violence and abuse (Acharya).

Nigeria's Human Rights Conditions and Depression

In its 2005 Human ***** Report Practices around the world, the US Department of State rated Nigeria's human rights conditions ***** "poor (Federal Research Division 2006)." The report said ***** ***** government officials ***** police were ********** behind politically-motivated killings, the use of deadly military force, beatings and *****rture and extortions. O*****r abuses include violence, discrimination, genital mutilation, child labor, prostitution and human trafficking. ********** are made worse by the imposition of Islamic law in 12 Northern states. Punishments are amputation, stoning and caning. Furthermore, there is