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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 11 Feb 2008 : 18:56:37
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Foroyaa Editorial
The President’s Treatment
The recent appearance of women who are said to be possessed by spirits needs comment to save them from stigma and possible isolation. Foroyaa will conduct interviews with psychologists, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses and medical social workers to inquire into their experiences. We also have among our editors experienced individuals who, sometimes ago, showed how a person who experiences periods of losing consciousness could be helped to gain consciousness by simply wiping the face with cold water.
It is very common in Gambian society to find people who fall down occasionally for one reason or another. Some do so in schools, market places, hospitals and even on the streets.
According to our findings, the human brain is a very complicated machine. It is made to act by voluntary and involuntary processes.
There are some people who are afraid of congested environments, heights and other conditions. They faint when they are faced with such conditions. There are those with brain injuries which form clots. Such people can easily go into coma. Some people experience epilepsy and can easily fall and even chew their tongues if they are not properly attended to. There are those who can be hypnotised. Once in a hypnotic stage, they could respond to suggestions and behave almost like robots.
There are people with mental problems who are ether neurotic or psychotic and could lose total control of themselves.
Recently Foroyaa came into contact with a girl who has gone to many marabouts or spiritual healers for supernatural intervention. She was told that she was possessed by spirits. She took all their concoctions but to no avail .She began to lose hope in herself. However, she was told how people with high fever go into a state of delirium and hysteria but do come out of the condition, that illness does not make a person less than a human being; that each of us must try to cope with our unique illnesses and seek help from those who can understand our illnesses better. Foroyaa will go into this issue to help people to have greater understanding of the human mind and personality.
Source: Foroyaa Newspaper Burning Issues
Issue No. 18/2007, 11 – 12 February 2008
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kaanibaa
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 Feb 2008 : 15:15:20
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| It is just like the proverbial drowning man clutching to a straw hoping it will safe him. It is pathetic but there you go what else is there for the poor persons in their states of utter helplessness but to go get any treatment on offer. At times like this one just goes for anything and should not be blamed for so doing.Giving people hope of gaining back their health can be good but it can also be very wicked if the hope is a hoax based one.Pity those who suffer ailments especially those that are not easily cured ;they are then left to the risks of being attended to by quacks and charlatans. I do hope that The president really gives these people the promised treatment so that they do not suffer twice ;that is from their sickness and the added failure of getting no cure after getting such high hopes from him. That would be so cruel |
Edited by - kaanibaa on 12 Feb 2008 15:17:25 |
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Karamba
United Kingdom
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Posted - 12 Feb 2008 : 19:09:14
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Truth to the word, Gambia's current president has a soaked passion for dead bodies. This is another scheme to provide his counting of human skulls. A man who is so strong a believer of demon powers will always perform what the oracles command. By the time Gambians get to know what the real matter is, many skulls will roll to the devil worshipping head/tail of state. This circus of affairs in Gambia is pathetic. |
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Santanfara
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Posted - 12 Feb 2008 : 19:28:10
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the oracles indeed karamba. what a shame.i wrote to the gainako editor from funi to talk some sense into his fellow foni man .but he never did it. |
Surah- Ar-Rum 30-22
"And among His signs is the creation of heavens and the earth, and the difference of your languages and colours. verily, in that are indeed signs for men of sound knowledge." Qu'ran
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