In general, mental illnesses in the society is regarded as a taboo, but in the African community, it is treated as a plague that can be contracted like any other communicable disease. This outlook is mostly due to a lack of understanding of what mental health is, or how symptoms can be treated or managed. Mental illness is any condition that affect or, cause a change in an individual’s thinking, emotion, and behavior. There are so many factors that leads to a degenerative or so-called full blown mental illness. The causes can be put into four groups, with simple
examples to back them up.
