The mentally ill… between disguising families and abandoning hospitals

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:

Muhammad Manfaluti_Heba Press

In fact, what pushed me to write on this subject was the extent of the injury suffered by a schoolgirl from the town of Berrechid by a mentally ill man who chased her on the public highway, grabbed her, threw her to the ground, then beat her with a “stone,” according to various accounts and testimonies.

An incident whose repercussions have been alerted by political and associative activities, highlighting that the growing phenomenon of mentally ill people in the city and in neighboring areas has become a worrying nightmare that threatens the lives of citizens in security, and can even transform at any time. in time bombs that roam the city and which can explode in the face of any innocent citizen, endangering their life or property, how many car windshields have been broken and how many store windows have been destroyed… so that the danger of these mental bombs. patients remain present in the absence of… Good governance to manage this worrying phenomenon.

Familiar scenes in the face of the silence of the authorities concerned

Among the familiar scenes observed in most of the streets of the town of Berrechid, and neighboring towns such as the town of Settat (as an example), we find the phenomenon of the spread of mentally ill people, in their different shapes and colors. Some of them carry dirty items either on a worn cart or on shabby bags, wandering the public streets, and some of them stand close to Madara, he follows the movements of cars and passers-by, facing to the silence and negligence of guards who sit idly by without thinking of solutions to eliminate this phenomenon.

Humans united by destiny, whose title is the misery and misery that appear on their faces, their bodies and their clothes that carry tons of dirt and are often torn in shameful places, and sometimes without clothes or anything to cover their private parts. the hair is long and bleached from dirt and the intensity of their exposure to the sun during their long and endless walks. They sleep on the ground and in search of the sky, they eat from restaurant leftovers, trash cans or whatever. the hands of philanthropists brought it. Some of them stand up. With movements that are immoral and incompatible with public morality, then where are their rights…???

Human beings abandoned by hospitals and abandoned by families

Heba Press sources revealed that the hemorrhage of abandonment of some mentally ill patients is still present at the psychiatric and psychological hospital in the city of Berrechid, while these people are heading towards neighboring areas, using the corridor as highway linking Al-Bayda to Settat. for them, it will perhaps lead them to one of the destinations, thus endangering their lives, on the one hand, and that of road users, on the other.

Others believe the reason is primarily either that this hospital is not accommodating their growing numbers, especially since many of them are permanent residents after their families abandoned them, or that many of these patients overstayed their stay, which became longer. For several years, all of this has limited the capacity of this hospital. Hospitals are working to find a solution for new patients, a medical source who declined to be named confirmed.

However, this fact is often denied by the managers and managers of these hospitals, who blame the patients’ families and consider them to have brought their patients to the city and abandoned them, because they found only the streets in front of them.

Those who follow local affairs believe, from their point of view, that often patients are hosted for a certain period and then return home to continue their treatment outside, taking into account their condition. Some of them do not need to stay in the facility. Here, families must be persuaded to keep their children and play their role and work to care for them in their social and natural environment, because this allows them to better control their illness. leaving them to roam freely in the streets and alleys of the city, like menacing time bombs. Explode at any time, killing or injuring innocent people.

Patients suffer from the constraints of treatment and difficulty recognizing the disease.

Among the mentally ill there are those who do not realize that they are really ill and do not believe that they need to take medication. The big problem is that there is no difference between the ignorant and the educated. Many of them are educated and some. Some of them have advanced degrees. However, some of them do not admit that they are sick and refuse to follow them.

One of the most difficult things in the treatment of mental and psychological illnesses in general is the patient’s acceptance to admit that he is psychologically or mentally ill, and the other issue is his acceptance to resort to treatment.