tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439435.post114534827715543381..comments2024-03-08T01:07:51.656-05:00Comments on KhadijaTeri: Being mentally ill in Libya must be pure hell.KhadijaTerihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01279047119702679252noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439435.post-89310149869219119002009-02-22T11:26:00.000-05:002009-02-22T11:26:00.000-05:00Suffering for deeds done over years to each other,...Suffering for deeds done over years to each other, society gets what it deserves.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439435.post-1145932375539742312006-04-24T22:32:00.000-04:002006-04-24T22:32:00.000-04:00i agree with the horrible life that the mentally i...i agree with the horrible life that the mentally ill have to lead in Libya...I have a distant relative, who has MAJOR depression, and she is just left alone in her room...no one goes to see her, and they just always say they tried to get a shaikh to help her, but it didnt work. Little do they know that Allah (SWT) will question them on this on the day of judgement, of not helping her. <BR/>Another issue that is a taboo in lots of socities, but is actually quite predominant in Libya is sexual abuse...some of the stories I heard when i was visiting a couple of years ago were quite horrible, then there are the girls who are abused by a prominent male relative, and when they tell their families, it is dismissed as a '7ala nafsiya'.<BR/>Libyanwarrior, its true we need to change stuff...but having a beating police and lynching people wont really solve the problem. I also dont know enough about the plight of the amazigh people, but I think it was the Arabs that brought Islam to the Amazigh, didnt they? Allah guides whomever he wills. I dont think the Arabs are the problem, more like corrupt leadership and society.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439435.post-1145391853519881832006-04-18T16:24:00.000-04:002006-04-18T16:24:00.000-04:00Lybianwarrior - subhan'allah! for a Libyan you sur...Lybianwarrior - subhan'allah! for a Libyan you sure sound like a redneck. Please take the weird test - I want to see your results.KhadijaTerihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01279047119702679252noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439435.post-1145379054203873672006-04-18T12:50:00.000-04:002006-04-18T12:50:00.000-04:00I think the problem exists the other way around, t...I think the problem exists the other way around, too. I´ve seen too many girls being labelled "mentally ill" - because they refuse a marriage, or because they are kept like animals in their room or because they have been beaten up every day of their lives. Once family spreads the word that "she is crazy", no one will want to help. The doctor gives her valium because Mum and Dad tell him "she suddenly went crazy" - but the reason for much "mental illness" is often pure psychological abuse from the family. I´ve seen too much of such girls; a neighbouring girl tried suicide, when at the hospital she felt fine and was quite "normal", as soon as her family picked her up and shipped her home, she "went crazy" again.<BR/><BR/>The issue of girls "gone crazy for apperant no reason" is not much talked about.<BR/>Yeah, sure some people are actually mentally ill, but we should not forget that some (mostly girls) aren´t but are labelled as such for convinience.LadyCrochttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11725989450693309463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439435.post-1145368404627886352006-04-18T09:53:00.000-04:002006-04-18T09:53:00.000-04:00Yes Hamed it is ignorance I agree.Educating people...Yes Hamed it is ignorance I agree.Educating people isn't enough .The only thing that will help is public awareness. .We have many educted people who behave ignorantly........Desert Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222949246654591658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439435.post-1145362277447197052006-04-18T08:11:00.000-04:002006-04-18T08:11:00.000-04:00Ignorance is what I call all this,I haven’t spent ...Ignorance is what I call all this,I haven’t spent many years in Hospitals ,but for three years now studying at most of Tripoli’s hospitals I've seen things that made me sure about that.<BR/>Parents denying that this illness of their son or daughter is because of psychiatric problem , no one accepts the reality and they all try as you said to escape it and go with Jinn .<BR/><BR/>In infectious diseases department I saw the stories of young men and women with HIV most of them are drug addicts and when you hear their stories you always find this big hole of family problems.<BR/><BR/>children with hearing disorders are badly treated at home or at school , just because he have hearing problem and he cant join the rest of the class on answering the question his great teacher sends him to the last raw with the rest of the lazy students which I am sure they only have some other mental or physical problem so he will get worse and worse .<BR/><BR/>the problem is not that people doesn’t know but they don’t want to accept the fact of Mental Illness, Mental Illness is a disease and they just think it’s hopeless case .hohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17836355080778341767noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439435.post-1145355593535880792006-04-18T06:19:00.000-04:002006-04-18T06:19:00.000-04:00Thanks 7mada we really need all the support we can...Thanks 7mada we really need all the support we can get. trDesert Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222949246654591658noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8439435.post-1145350400297064932006-04-18T04:53:00.000-04:002006-04-18T04:53:00.000-04:00Seeking help is just out of the question, cause mo...Seeking help is just out of the question, cause most people think it being a curse. As for the sheikhs who are presumed to cure (doing great moneywise)is purely rubbish.Libyans tend to use this method of so called 'help' for the mentally ill as a last and only solution. For the drug addicts it's the same story all over the world.What is needed are programmes such as A.A.and ALANON and similar which would benefit our people.Interaction with normal people will never cure them .Medical treatment and public awarenes programmes are needed. Nothing else.<BR/>For the roles you play Dearest Khadija you are to be admired.May Allah help you.Desert Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06222949246654591658noreply@blogger.com