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…..is there not a cause?

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June 17, 2019

May is was Mental Health Month, I didn’t write on it cause I felt like a lot of people were talking about it already from as far back as last year and it became more intense towards the latter part of the year.

Almost very other day, I was reading posts about university students committing suicide, grown family men committing suicide and the likes and it was really heartbreaking and it still is. By the time we got to May this year, I genuinely felt like there was already a lot that had been said regarding mental health and there was nothing more I could add on and it doesn’t look like it’s the end, I feel like everyday I am going to come across a post that has to do with mental health.

Having said all that, I really didn’t know what I would write about regarding this challenge, I was blank. Of course, there are issues I am interested in and there are issues I just wonder about like why no one talks about the boy child, I mean there is a lot already for the girl child, leaving the boy child neglected and I wonder why there is no boy child something, no support groups for men, in Zim I only know of one and I don’t even know what they do exactly, for women it’s clear this organisation is for women’s rights, this one is for abused women,this one is for women who want to start projects but the man’s one…what do they do? There are more men committing suicide cause of the burdens of being the bread winner, high expectations from their fathers etc and everyone is going on about how men should open up,but who do they open to? Will their pride allow them to go and see a female therapist?

It should be that men are the pillars but the foundations don’t seem strong enough to hold them up, and slowly they are becoming broken pillars, and we all know the tragic demise of that. So when I read this article here https://hallelujahmag.com/2019/06/14/please-help-us-reconcile-with-our-families-pleads-chikurubi-prisoners/ I was touched. If there is no hope for the common man in the street what hope is there for the man in prison?

If we are honest with ourselves, when we talk of systems and processes that will help the “community”, or when we are coming up with projects bidding for grants for our “communities” that community excludes the incarcerated. Honest to God unless He reveals it to me in a dream, I probably wouldn’t think about them too and that’s bad. This is a cause I had never thought about before this article but it really does look like prisoners also have it real bad in prisons with regards to mental health. How do we even begin to speak of therapists when there is no medication to assist them.

Is this not a cause worth speaking about? Is there not a cause to have these inmates healed before their integration into society? Of what use are they going to be to help fight crime or help young people not to get into crime if they are taken from prison to mental institution where they will not even get the help they need talk about out of the frying pan into the fire…

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  1. Moira

    June 17, 2019

    I agree with you, they are slowly becoming broken pillars

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