Mental Health : Inclusive Care Seriously Needed

With life increasingly becoming complex owing to challenges within and without, many citizens react and adapt differently to their predicaments based on the magnitude of their problems and their capacity to weather the storm. These are indeed baffling moments that fortify some and destroy others. 
It is either the rising cost of living with galloping inflation where many struggle to survive, family problems that get some confused or even ethnic or security complications that are more and more overwhelming in society, ruining some inhabitants or forcing others to relocate. All of these are sources of trauma impact the lives in different ways. 
Seeing people moving on the streets and talking to themselves might look banal, but what has pushed them to unconsciously behave awkward is certainly what many ignore. There are some who might go through all these and stand the test of time, but for others, if care is not taken, madness might simply step in and damage their lives sometimes for ever. From observation, when a hitherto upright person begins going through this mental challenge, society most often tends to point accusing fingers on him or her for dipping his/her hands somewhere; often ungodly. Once such a position is already taken, the individual is often abandoned to himself with little or no help sought. Without however dismissing the society’s point of view, looking at the evil that dominate society nowadays, it must be said that some of these cerebral complications can be handled and a life saved if proper attention is given to population’s mental health on time. 
In fact, the mental well-being that enables people to cope with the stresses of life, realise their abilities, learn well and work well as well as contribute to their community, is and should be made an integral component of public health. According to the World Health Organisation, mental health is a basic human right which is crucial to personal, community and socio-economic development. Stigmatising those with cerebral worries without bordering to know how they got there or providing appropriate solutions to their problems, is utter carelessness.
It is common knowledge that individual psychological and biological factors such as emotional skills, substance use and genetics can make people more vulnerable to mental health problems. Also, exposure to unfavourable social, economic, geopolitical and environmental circumstances such as poverty, violence, inequality and environmental deprivation also increase people’s risk of experiencing mental health conditions.
Visibly, the problems that push victims to go mental seem to be taking a toll on society. In Cameroon for instance, studies have shown that multiple crisis have increased the rate of mental disorders in the affected societies. According to a study carried out by one Patricia Ngum in the North West Region in the wake of the raging security crisis in the North West and South West Regions, mental health cases have risen to about 90 per cent in the North West. A series of factors ranging from gunshots, killings, economic hardship, kidnappings, poor stress management, prolonged illness and a lot more are said to be responsible for this. The study showed that most people living in the affected regions are suffering silently in their depression and the mental disorders often start from within before manifesting physically. That many more mentally disabled persons are found on the streets is the result; regrettably, with sometimes little or nothing done to remedy their sorrowful states. 
A similar situation was reported in the Far North Region during the hot days of Boko Haram. According to the study, “A cross-sectional analysis of mental health disorders in a mental health services-seeking population of children, adolescents, and young adults in the context of ongoing violence and displacement in northern Cameroon,” published on ScienceDirect, significant youth mental health needs in Cameroon’s Far North most often take the form of an anxiety disorder and are more prevalent among individuals in the host population than among displaced individuals; clear proves that mental disorders have links with societal challenges.
Note must therefore be taken that the social, intellectual, physical, emotional, spiritual, occupational and en...