Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority, Dr. Akwasi Osei, has cautioned actors in this year’s general elections, especially the candidates, to restrain their emotional outburst to...
In the past few months or so, we have had to contend with disturbing news stories bordering on clearly mental challenges. When a man murders his mother and a house-help simultaneously, gruesomely, we...
A GNA feature by Dennis Peprah Mental illness, according to medicine, is a chronic disorder diagnosed, most often by a psychiatrist, of a behavioral or mental pattern that may cause suffering, or...
* They found they increased the risk of harm regardless of someone’s age * But some scientists argue the findings and say they are beneficial Healthy people who take antidepressants are twice as...
Dr. Akwasi Osei, Chief Executive Officer of the Mental Health Authority has revealed that more that 2.3 million of Ghana’s population is suffering from various mental challenges. He observes that...
The Ghana Mental Health Authority has warned that a project it initiated to take six thousand mentally ill patients off the streets of the country is in limbo. This is because the authority is cash...
The euphoria, enthusiasm and joy with which the passage of the Mental Health Act (Act 846) came with, somewhere in March 2012 have evaporated into thin air like morning dew beyond the immediate...
By the time his parents brought him to the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, Yaba, Lagos, he had pierced his body with blades and knives. The 23-year-old university undergraduate looked cool,...
The dire situation of the Accra Psychiatric Hospital has deteriorated to the point where the facility does not even have access to basic items such as A-4 sheets to take down minor but critical...
Mr Joseph Yere, the Brong-Ahafo Regional Coordinator of Mental Health, has appealed to the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) to assist and confine patients with mental illness roaming the streets of...
Are you considering dating someone with depression? If so, here are all the truths you need to know about dating, depression, and relationships. If you have ever found yourself dating someone with...
The All People’s Congress (APC) has promised to establish a psychiatric hospital in all ten regions of the country as it outdoors what it describes as its “feasible and doable social intervention...
The ‘notoriety’ of the name Ankaful, when mentioned, is enough to hijack someone’s thought to fixate on mental patients before further clarification could release them from such prejudice. The...
The number of mentally challenged patients roaming the streets in the country could increase significantly due to the increase in fees at the Accra Psychiatric Hospital.
The hospital, a few weeks...
At least 10,250.000 Ghanaians, predominantly women, are suffering from mental distress and depression, the Chief Psychiatrist of the Ghana Health Service, has said.
The number represents 41 per cent...
