{"id":64,"date":"2019-10-30T10:37:17","date_gmt":"2019-10-30T10:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/?p=64"},"modified":"2020-12-04T07:19:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T07:19:57","slug":"fnph-benin-in-conjunction-with-fucc-apnon-iapn-marks-world-mental-health-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/fnph-benin-in-conjunction-with-fucc-apnon-iapn-marks-world-mental-health-day\/","title":{"rendered":"FNPH Benin in Conjunction with FUCC, APNON &#038; IAPN marks  World Mental Health Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Benin City (FNPH Benin) in collaboration with Friends of Uselu Community (FUCC), the Association of Psychiatric Nurses of Nigeria (APNON), and International Association of Psychiatric Nurses (IAPN) yesterday 10<sup>th <\/sup>\u00a0October, 2019 joined other health institutions in the globe to mark the World Mental Health Day with the theme \u201c<em>Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention<\/em>\u201d. This is in sync with the initiative and vision of the World Health Organisation (WHO) that in 1992 set aside October 10<sup>th<\/sup> of every year to commemorate global mental health awareness. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In\nhis keynote address, the Chief host of the event, Dr. S.O. Olotu, the Medical\nDirector of the hospital, said that the theme was picked by the WHO to address\nan exigent area of mental health advocacy with the aim of mitigating or preventing\nsuicide in the world. Dr. Olotu emphasized that if the contributing factors of\nsuicide are known, then government, health institutions and other health care\nproviders would be able to legislate and help people to prevent suicidal\nattempts\/suicide.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nguest speaker, Dr. Israel O. Aina, (Consultant Psychiatrist) who spoke on the\ntopic \u201c<em>Suicide Prevention Global\nChallenges &amp; Future Directions<\/em>\u201d asserted that the growing rate of\nsuicidal attempts which have become a global health problem is the major\nmotivating factor for this year\u2019s theme. According to the WHO, suicide is the\nsecond leading cause of death in the world and about 800,000 persons commit\nsuicide every year. Dr. Aina, who defined suicide as the act of intentionally\ncausing one\u2019s own death, said this is occasioned either by physical or sexual\nabuses, bullying (cyber bullying), stress, poverty, use of hard drugs, job\nloss, problem at work, divorce or separation, death of a loved one, family\nhistory of suicide or violence etc. and is usually perpetuated with the use of\nweaponry or instruments such as: firearms, pesticides, sniper, knives, among\nothers. Some warning signs of suicide include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Verbal signs; written or verbalized with\nsuicidal contents; <\/li><li>Depression or withdrawn to oneself; <\/li><li>Putting affairs in order as to give away\nvalued possessions;<\/li><li>Behaving recklessly such as: fighting\nand breaking rules;<\/li><li>Showing a marked change in behaviour,\nattitudes or appearance; and<\/li><li>Physical changes such as loss of\nappetite, sudden weight loss, change of sexual interest.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nguest speaker advised that: the promotion of good health, reduction in the\nstigma associated with mental illness, improved access to evidence based mental\nhealth care early, identification of mental illness in person and addressing it\nproperly, improved the health condition, keeping oneself busy and exercising regularly,\navoiding risky behaviour, avoiding the use of hard drugs, maintenance of good\ninterpersonal relationships, etc. are expedient in maintaining good mental health\nwhich would help to forestall&nbsp; suicidal\nattempts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nevent which was held in the Conference Hall of the Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital\nat Uselu was attended by Management, Heads of Department, Staff, Students, Journalists,\nMedia Officials (such as: NTA, EBS, &amp; Silverbird Television Stations), and invited\nGuests. Having been enlightened by the lecture, some members of staff and\nStudents Nurses of the hospital went on a tour around the Uselu and New Benin\nenvirons to educate members of the public on Mental Health and to \u2018say no to Suicide\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Suicide\nis Confusing, Painful &amp; Mysterious, but it is Preventable.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Prevent\n&amp; \u2018Say No to Suicide\u2019 Today.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Talk\nto Experts in Mental Health Today.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital Benin City (FNPH Benin) in collaboration with Friends of Uselu Community (FUCC), the Association of Psychiatric Nurses of Nigeria (APNON), and International Association of Psychiatric Nurses (IAPN) yesterday 10th \u00a0October, 2019 joined other health institutions in the globe to mark the World Mental Health Day with the theme \u201cMental Health Promotion&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/fnph-benin-in-conjunction-with-fucc-apnon-iapn-marks-world-mental-health-day\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnphbenin.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}