Abstract
The big surge in mental health issues such as depression, psychosis, psychotic disorders and other allied ailments in Africa call for immediate and serious attention of the global community. A deep insight into these reviews exposes a highly important point that limited studies have been done on psychotic disorders in the African subcontinent. It is evident from these reviews that psychological problems are varied in nature and occurred due to a number of causes. The letter is an effort to bring attention of the research community that Africa required the maximum number of psychotic studies due to its socio-economic, psychological, medical and educational situation.
Highlights
The big surge in mental health issues such as depression, psychosis, psychotic disorders and other allied ailments in Africa call for immediate and serious attention of the global community
It is the irony that the sustained stressful conditions often lead to low self-esteem through borderline personality disorder (BPD) [3], posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) [4] and many more; in each and every African victim
Earlier through a review-meta-analysis in The Lancet Public Health, Jongsma et al [10] tried to portray the incidence of psychotic disorder and the related variations around the globe by examining the demographic characteristics and study methods
Summary
The big surge in mental health issues such as depression, psychosis, psychotic disorders and other allied ailments in Africa call for immediate and serious attention of the global community. Mental health, psychosis, psychotic disorders, psychotic studies Ranging from simple agony to severe trauma, all of us have suffered with some degree of mental stress during this pandemic and shall surely come out of it as did Africa in 2016 by surviving Ebola epidemic with a total of 28616 cases and more than 11, 310 deaths [1].
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