Hi guys, i just want to take this time to make a little postulation about a few impressions that has appeared strong in my mind just some minutes ago.
Are there any correlation between poverty and mental illness and what can LEO do about it?
Over here in Nigeria, every mental illness is addressed as a family problem but in this post we will ascertain if all mental illness are family problem.
Answering the above question is seemingly complex question that is fairly new to science.
Despite high rates of both poverty and mental disorders around the world, researchers only started probing the possible links about 25 years ago.
Now I would like us to start by defining our basic terms in order to be guided in our postulations. Let's begin with defining poverty and examine if it has any synchronizing factor with mental illness.
What is Poverty
Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs. Now following by the second definition of poverty, could this cause any mental malfunctioning?
Research has proven that people who live in poverty appear to be at higher risk for mental illnesses. They also report lower levels of happiness in their day to day life. first of all lets see what happiness is...
WHAT IS HAPPINESS?
For me happiness is an emotional state characterized by feelings of joy, contentment, and fulfillment. but happiness has so many different definitions, it is most often described as getting positive emotions and life satisfaction. ones you miss from any of the characteristics of happiness mentioned above you are most likely said to be either poor or mentally unstable.
Its high time we begin highlighting the physicality of our mentality and to dump Descartian mind-body dualism.
WAYS TO STOP POVERTY
There are very few and simple ways we can help stop poverty as individuals, we can do so by funding a child’s education or by sponsoring a poor family and advising others to do so. Raising money and donating it to a nonprofit and expect noting in return can help as well. that is were we from the LEO finance community come in, please lets help fight poverty from our planet.
note that before we can be able to stop poverty we should at least know the root and causes of poverty.
wishing you all a happy new year!!
