MEN'S WEEK CELEBRATION || HEALTH TALK || 18/06/2026

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[00:08:21]person for today women's fellowship president Mrs. Oilia Pal.

[00:08:45]You Doctor living in the manhood.

[00:09:19]Mommy, Dr. Erica Dixon.

[00:09:29]Mommy Dr. Erica Dixon.

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[00:09:40]Yes, doctor. You are welcome, doctor.

[00:09:53]Thank you very much, Madame Chair.

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[00:10:02]If you would allow me, Am I permitted? Thank you very much.

[00:10:20]Let us pray.

[00:10:22]Heavenly Father, we thank you for bringing us together this evening. It is our prayer that through what we are going to study today, we'll pick a few things that would help us better our lives. In Jesus name, have we prayed. Amen.

[00:10:45]Invitation.

[00:10:53]I am a mental health professional would be centered on mental health and I hear this week is men's week. So we will see where the men fit into mental health. When we hear mental health, what do we usually think about?

[00:11:13]Mental health.

[00:11:15]for me it okay and I think that is what is the the thinking of majority of people I don't understand when we say fiscal health we don't think about sick people lying in bed but when we say mental health we think of people who are sick in their mind unfortunately so I hope that that perception would change Today health is our most important asset.

[00:12:03]Um mental health is part of our health. WH health is not merely the absence of disease but it is a complete stage of your physical, mental and social wellbe and social wellbe only on our physical well-being. So today we are making that shift. Why is it important to have good mental health?

[00:12:38]It is our mental health that helps us in many many ways.

[00:12:44]If you be happy then you are in good mental health. It affects your emotions.

[00:12:49]So if you are in good mental health you have a better sense of yourself. You believe in yourself.

[00:12:59]Oh hey oh o good I'm trying by the time I leave here I'll be a a g professor you'll be more productive your interaction with other people is better when you are feeling well h emotionally and mentally and so mental health is about how we live and interact with people. Why is it even important that we should be talking about mental health? Is is it an issue?

[00:13:30]Indeed, now globally, mental health is being recognized as that sickness that leaves a lot of people disabled.

[00:13:41]And it is ranking higher than the hypertension and strokes and other cardiovascular diseases and cancers and so on and so forth. which means it is something that we must really pay attention to and we haven't done so in the past.

[00:14:05]Eight people may have a mental disorder or a mental health problem.

[00:14:13]1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. You can imagine how many people here possibly could have a mental health problem.

[00:14:22]For younger people, it is even higher.

[00:14:25]One in seven among young people. And in Ghana, it is estimated that about 10% of the population have one or the other mental health problem. That is big number because our population is about 33 million or more. So you can imagine 10% that's many many people that need help.

[00:14:51]She unfortunately we don't put money there. We don't understand it mental health you know and things like that. So many people misunderstand mental health and often h you will end up in a prayer camp if you are even lucky or in a shrine. It is rubbed in mysticism.

[00:15:36]Health is health.

[00:15:38]Anything like that happens still it is a hospital that can help. Now going further mental health mental health What is mental health? Mental health is not merely the absent absence of a mental illness. The fact that you don't have a mental illness doesn't mean that you are mentally healthy. In the same way that the same way you are not sick does not mean that you are physically fit.

[00:16:19]In the same way you may not have any sickness but you may not be well or all right. Can we have the projection of the um all right no mental health there it is a concept of how somebody is able to deal with their daytoday stresses of life d we have challenges are you able to deal with it well are you reaching your full potential are you productive and are you able to contribute to your community. If you are able to do this well, then you can say you are mentally healthy.

[00:17:05]So all of us potentially may not be that mentally healthy as we believe that we are.

[00:17:13]Mental health is different from mental illness or disorder.

[00:17:18]disorder wrong with your thinking, with how you feel, with how you behave.

[00:17:30]Sometimes it is all the three.

[00:17:32]Something's gone wrong with all the three and it causes distress to you and it affects how you are able to function.

[00:17:45]And this is something that will trouble not just you but the people who are close to you as well.

[00:17:52]Unfortunately, many people think that mental health is one illness and it is that illness called madness.

[00:18:04]It's one sickness. It's not like that at all. Just as physical health is a whole spectrum of illnesses, in the same way mental health too comes different different different um some are in children, some are in adults, some are in young people, some are in older people, different types of mental illnesses.

[00:18:30]The slides please go on to the next.

[00:18:33]Now when you look at this slide green side you are born well doesn't mean you will be well all the rest of your life.

[00:18:49]sometimes in your life.

[00:18:55]Let's look at those of us who are um government workers, uh monthly payment uh workers, you don't feel well in yourself.

[00:19:17]The rich people don't understand what we are talking about.

[00:19:21]But when next week comes or the following week and you hear alert on your phone, all of a sudden you feel joy.

[00:19:38]It check your mood. It even changes how you behave. You behave. You are more friendly towards people. first.

[00:19:54]So maybe when there was no money, you were in the yellow zone. But life throws us things and sometimes it is so heavy that it takes you far to the other side and when you hit that red zone then we say that you have a mental illness which means this can happen to anybody mental illness at all. Anybody can get a mental illness. And so if we remember that we need to even show kindness to those who are sick because it could have been you honor. So with that in mind and now understanding that there are different types. Let's go to the next slide.

[00:20:45]The next slide please. I think there's a picture on that I wanted to show. If you look at this big book, it is like the Bible for mental illnesses.

[00:20:55]So if you see how big this book is, it should help you understand that mental illness is not one illness.

[00:21:04]For example, a child may be on the autism spectrum.

[00:21:09]Autism, it is related to mental health.

[00:21:15]There's also attention deficit hyperactive disorder and everybody is distressed by their movement and I'm a cra and we don't understand them. It is mental health related and these are things that will happen in children when you look at their extreme of age. People who grow much older, it's not everybody, but they may get dementia the whole day that also is mental health related.

[00:21:58]So there are different types. It's not one illness. At least I think that is understood. What causes mental illness then?

[00:22:07]It is not one single thing but it is a complex interplay of different different things.

[00:22:14]Ecom biological ecom psychological e social. So when we talk about the biological things genetics old folks Yes. There are some mental illnesses that run in families. The same way hypertension and diabetes can run in families, isn't it?

[00:22:45]Some mental illnesses can run in families. Even alcoholism then you know that they may be carrying that gene.

[00:23:00]Then apart from uh genetics there's also hormonal changes.

[00:23:07]T3 year even in your menstrual cycle some people their menstrual cycle and the hormonal changes causes them to have mood changes.

[00:23:18]H menopause is changing period changes mental health problems.

[00:23:27]Pregnancy after pregnancy changes, mental health problem, what is called postpartum depression, sometimes postpartum psychosis and then physical health conditions to chronic illnesses or hypertension or diabetes or cancer things that you um especially when you are not controlling well it can bring on meal al health conditions too. Injury to the head can bring on changes in behavior that may be seen as if you have a mental illness.

[00:24:06]Some infections may cause changes in your behavior.

[00:24:11]So for example, a disease like um an infection like HIV sometimes the first time we notice that you have is you come with changes in behavior.

[00:24:34]Psychologically, people's attachments especially in early life matters. Are they loved or they are not? Were they rejected by their parents that So the child grows up without a father or sometimes without a mother. All these things can affect the person's psych psychology and when they grow up begin to have problems.

[00:25:10]social abuses in our homes.

[00:25:16]Boxing ring is not palatable at all.

[00:25:27]um family dynamics that are not [snorts] healthy.

[00:25:33]All these things do do affect and because it is a men's week. This month is men's mental health awareness month.

[00:25:45]Did any of you know that? All right. So, you didn't know when it's the women we make a lot of noise. The men don't make the noise. This month of June is men's mental health awareness. And why are we paying attention to men? Because we have socialized men to bottle all their emotions in.

[00:26:07]And so they don't express it and it's resulting in very negative outcomes.

[00:26:13]When you look at certain statistics, especially concerning suicide, more men die by suicide than women. Even though more women attempt suicide than men, it is troubling and we believe that it is how we socialize our men.

[00:26:35]Um I don't know how it's said in but you know those sort of statements that we make make the men believe that they should hold it all in. But men are like women in that they also have emotions.

[00:26:55]They have feelings. And so when they hurt it is all right to be able to express that I'm unhappy about this.

[00:27:02]This is making me sad. so that somebody supports you. Sometimes the men are struggling and they are not allowed to show it. If you go and tell a young lady, I love you just now. Get your money ready. You should be sending momo.

[00:27:18]Sometimes you don't have the money. It's as if you don't have money, you can't love anybody.

[00:27:25][clears throat] You have to buy the hair, the long hair.

[00:27:28]You have to do this and do that. all their financial burden becomes yours and a lot of men are crumbling under the pressures of all of these demands that we are making from them. this father's day the fathers will be the same people who would um till them themselves whereas if it is the mothers we expect that you buy something for them or these days the women have been h spreading the men I've seen them nodding they said they do it [laughter] they are trying so we'll do better we'll keep doing better so these are some of the challenges and people break under those kind of pressure.

[00:28:20]Next slide please.

[00:28:23]Now how would you know that you are feeling mentally unwell?

[00:28:27]I've mentioned that mental illness is not just one sickness and we can't go to medical school here and I'll say all right when you have depression this and this and this is what you see when you have anxiety but generally there are certain changes changes in mood sometimes mood swings or sometimes the person feels too happy too energetic they can work from here to Macola and back without any problem. They are full of energy. We say they in a manic phase or they feel too low. They lack energy.

[00:29:08]They don't want to do anything. They don't can't even comb their hair. It's too much work for them.

[00:29:15]Um those sort of mood changes can happen. Behavior changes also can happen. And usually no one owner you don't know how somebody feels except in how they act or behave. Some people would with redraw men's fellowship's fellowship first and sometimes as Christian brothers we don't go and look for the people. We are all too busy. We have to be each other's keeper. Maybe something is going on with a person.

[00:29:51]Um, you can't sleep or you are sleeping too much, you can't eat or you're eating too much, your libido has gone down or it is in excess.

[00:30:04]So you your normal uh baseline behaviors are there. Then you see something changes either up or down because mentally something has changed. Let's go on next slide.

[00:30:23]Now when you find you having these symptoms what should you do?

[00:30:29]People think she regular primary care physician, your regular doctor.

[00:30:50]So they'll have a conversation with you and try and assess what is going on with you the same way they'll do if you went with fever and headache.

[00:31:01]Sometimes they'll ask you to go and do laboratory investigations.

[00:31:08]Confirm mental illness.

[00:31:11]There are some illnesses that may mimic mental illness. HIV infection HIV is just a mental illness mental illness infection is still there. So it won't be going away if it is hormonal problems it still will be ongoing. So labs to check these things and see what things can be changed and then once a proper diagnosis has been made treatment can then follow.

[00:31:44]Treatment is not always admission to the mental hospital. Most people don't even need admission.

[00:31:53]Often times a psychologist with certain techniques and help them out of this difficulty that they are having in some cases it needs medication.

[00:32:11]Some people say again I can't say it in ga but people say if you have a mental illness it never goes away.

[00:32:23]It is not exactly like that in the sense that just like physical illness, there are certain physical illnesses that malaria malaria it will go away. If you live somewhere that mosquitoes keep biting you, you can still get malaria again. Isn't it? It is the same with some mental illnesses. You can be depressed because you have the predisposition to and other things have come together and you get it. Then there are some sicknesses that are chronic sicknesses.

[00:33:03]Hypertension is a chronic illness.

[00:33:08]We don't have cure, we have management.

[00:33:12]Similarly in mental illnesses diseases like schizophrenia k bipolar disorder is not curable she will manage you with medication so you have to take your medication all the time but you and I hospital malaria for 3 days sometimes you don't finish taking it three days so imagine you are taking the medicine every day for the rest of your life sometimes they are tired and they stop taking it and then the illness can come.

[00:33:44]Do you get it? So that's what happens.

[00:33:47]Next slide.

[00:33:52]So I would want to encourage all of us.

[00:33:57]If you are in some kind of distress, we have said that you may be perfectly well in the green zone, then something is going on in your life.

[00:34:09]au you have been together for a million years now she says she'll marry you again it will disturb you won't it don't wait for it to take you to the red zone you find that you are not put together you can't work you can't function seek therapy therapy doesn't mean you are going to be put on medication you're going to have conversations that will help you work through those emotional difficulties that you are having make certain mind shifts and so on. So whatever sphere of your life you are challenged with therapy is helpful and there is nothing wrong with going to see a psychologist or a therapist okay psychologist usually people come and said and my response so it is fine and by the time we finish having these conversations they appreciate why they were asked to come.

[00:35:13]Next slide.

[00:35:18]Prevention they say is better than cure.

[00:35:21]So as we are talking about mental health, what are the things we can do to build up our strength or our resilience so that we can stand the storms of life so that we will be better anchored?

[00:35:36]Cons it shouldn't be able to push us down. We should be able to stand up to it bluff selfare taking care of yourself being intentional you can go to the next slide being intentional about taking care of yourself most of the time we are busy with work we go we come we don't bother with whatever is going on with us we don't take care of ourselves so you have to have that mindset where you are intentional about doing things that makes you physically and mentally well to be able to face the world uh on the dayto-day basis and what are some of the things that we can do as far as that is concerned next slide I don't want to stay too long on the presentation so that we can interact more after your physical well-being is very important for your mental well-being our body our mind should be sitting in a healthy body. So your healthy lifestyle, eating well, exercising, drinking clean water, those same lifestyle things are important to your mental well-being. for your mental well-being, meditation, be it Christian meditation or other kinds of like yoga and so on. Something to bring the tensions down and make you rested. Even doing deep breathing exercises.

[00:37:15]Breathe in.

[00:37:20][snorts] You have to slowly breathe in.

[00:37:31]You breathe it. You suck it all in and you slowly bring it out. It has a way of calming you emotionally.

[00:37:39]um being reflective, being conscious of yourself, sometimes even keeping a gratitude journal.

[00:37:47]We are so focused on what is not going on well in our life all the time that we forget the many things that we are blessed with. Mal and when you remember all the good things that you are blessed with, you'd find you are doing better. just yesterday in research positive confessions. Yeah. In the Bible you say confess h there's power in the tongue and research has looked at that and shown that the brain does respond to the things that you say and those who say positive things it impacts your brain.

[00:38:32]If you say keep say keep saying negative things also that also impacts you negatively. So not looking only at the bad things that are happening to you but looking also at the positive things that are happening in your life.

[00:38:48]We are spiritual beings as well otherwise we won't even be sitting in this room. The African is notoriously religious and so are the Ghanaians.

[00:38:59]We believe in spiritual things. Being connected with nature is important for our mental well-being. Being connected to a higher being is also important. And for us, we have chosen Christ or God as we know him. All right? Then stimulating your brain. H these days these things are troubling us. People are not reading anymore. We are just scrolling and scrolling and scrolling. But when you engage in intellectual things, it strengthens your brain. It makes you um better. Please don't take it away from me. Thank you. Environmental things also matters. Nature around us is very powerful. Unfortunately, we have cemented everywhere instead of planting greens. It does good to our mental well-being. So we should still push to have green areas.

[00:40:02]All the green areas have been taken up by skyscrapers. It's not good for us.

[00:40:08]Social connectedness is one of the most powerful things that keeps our mental health going well.

[00:40:16]Some studies were done and they said even living long those who are connected live longer.

[00:40:24]BN you go into a family home in Osu and you have grandma, great grandma, parents and no we all live in unison. Now we have high walls like this and two people inside the high walls. We don't see anybody. We don't connect with anybody.

[00:40:43]It's not good for our mental health. And of course money is one of those things that can put a lot of pressure. If you don't manage that well, you would feel pressured all the time.

[00:40:56]Shall we go on?

[00:40:58]Next slide. Um, these are difficult to see from where I stand. I hope you see better. But there are so many activities that we can do. physical activities, going for a swim, even getting the sun, stepping out in sun, you know, is helpful for us. Those who live abroad mental health problem:00 all these things have an impact and we have it in abundance and yet there are some people in Ghana who are not seeing sun 5 a.m. office especially our men and these are not helpful for our mental well-being. Next, so to be able to take good care of yourself on a daily basis to prevent all these negative things, think of the biological things that you can do. your lifestyle, your eating habits, your physical activity. Many of us are not working at all. Doortodoor Uber because we won't walk.

[00:42:26]Next movement is very important for us. In fact, one of the prescriptions people who are anxious and uh feeling depressed is physical exercise. It causes the stimulation of the right kind of chemicals that picks you up.

[00:42:44]The way we think and see our world also counts. Some people see things always everything is negative.

[00:43:05]Not great. So let us be conscious and aware of the way we think and manage these thoughts.

[00:43:18]How would you even be able to live when you believe everybody around you is a bad person? You are always under pressure and that's not helpful. Next slide.

[00:43:31]The human connectedness that I talked about. We are so busy we are not connecting with people. The best we do is hi hello send WhatsApp that is not enough. When human beings come together that energy keeps us well. So let us be intentional and make time to connect with each other. The next slide.

[00:43:58]So just look at that chart and look at the various things in create your own selfare checklist.

[00:44:20]Have a checklist of your selfare and make a conscious effort to try and do most of these things from time to time to keep yourself mentally healthy. The next slide.

[00:44:37]So to bring it to an end, what I have been talking about in this past few minutes is that none of us is immune to having any kind of mental health problems. You may not even be sick or have a diagnosible illness, but you may not be doing well. You may be struggling whether you're a man or you're a woman, whether you're a child or an aged person, we all have the potential to struggle, all have challenges. So it's important that we are intentional about building ourselves in the way we live so that when the heat comes we are able to absorb it.

[00:45:18]None of us is an island. We must take care of each other and be each other's keeper. And like happened in the book of Acts when the Holy Spirit came on them they were together. People sold their things and brought it together and shared. When you have an excess, you share with others. Somebody is struggling and you can see oh Christmas you would have shown love to somebody.

[00:45:52]So let's live as Christians and care for each other. Thank you very much Madame Chair. Okay.

[00:46:25]Let me see your hand.

[00:46:29]Thank madam.

[00:46:37]Sometimes I investigate psychologist.

[00:46:49]We do yearly medical checkups.

[00:47:00]Okay.

[00:47:06]Okay, if you don't mind, because my guy is not great, I'll lose it. So, let me answer that one and go to the next. Um, so the question is, why do we do fiscal checkups and we don't do mental checkups, right? Okay.

[00:47:24]I said from the beginning as a country we are a people that don't quite pay any attention to mental health and it is now before we are beginning to pick up I have worked in the space of mental health for maybe 25 years or more once psychologically how am I doing we don't Even those who are referred to come they are protesting. Say, so now that we are understanding there is nothing stopping you from going to see a practitioner to check.

[00:48:10]The other problem has been that there are very few people in the area of mental health. As of 2014, the whole country I psychiatrist 12 1 2 3 12 for the whole country.

[00:48:27]Over time we are growing more professionals in the area. I think now there are about 80 psychiatrists. It's still too small for 10% of the whole nation.

[00:48:39]practitioners you are perceived as doing well then it will look like you're coming to waste their time to do a check when people are seriously ill and needing them. So going forward as the numbers grow I think that should be a normal thing that you can have done. Thank you.

[00:49:03]There's a hand here.

[00:49:45]I know you dementia bipolar.

[00:50:08]Bipolar is only one of the many kinds of mental illnesses. It is a mood illness. Remember we said things change with your thinking, with your behavior and with your feelings or mood. Bipolar is mainly a mood change problem. No, I call by by is two two polar ends of behavior. At one point in time they are so depressed.

[00:50:40]They are unhappy.

[00:50:45]Then when that phase goes they go also into a phase where the energy is more.

[00:50:53]All right. So from a phase where you are depressed, you lack energy, you don't want to see people, you don't want to do anything, that depressed phase goes and then the manic phase also comes where the person feels so much energy.

[00:51:09]Sometimes they believe they are um God or superior grandous thoughts, you know those kind of thoughts. Um they get very sexually active. They take risky behavior.

[00:51:29]Those sort of things and they are different types. The changing from low to high is different for everybody.

[00:51:40]Some people get mainly low periods and every now and then they get one high period.

[00:51:47]During the high period, their thoughts are racing in but they have ideas. They can go days without sleeping but they are still very functional.

[00:51:57]You know they'll talk plenty then you know that all right something has switched. Some people too get that phase more and then they get just a fleeting period of depression. So that's what bipolar is and it is one of the chronic conditions for which you would have to take your medications to stabilize your mood so that it's not going up and down. It is not like malaria where if you have malaria it is um com 1 in the morning and then 12 hours uh 8 hours later and 1212 not like that.

[00:52:36]Each person you tailor the medication to suit their changing mood. So just as they'll do with hypertension, not everybody who has hypertension is on one medicine. Somebody is on half of a medicine. Somebody is on four different medicine before their blood pressure comes down. I hope that has been helpful. Thank you.

[00:53:06]Thank you very much. Uh well done from your presentation and if I've listened well every 10 people at least you have one person with mental health and even with children you mentioned that out of seven you get one as a a nation we say at least 10%.

[00:53:28]Um I listened to a lecture on mental health and at the end the conclusion was that everybody has mental health [snorts] and from your presentation today and the illustrations it seems unbelieving that there is nobody without mental health. So my question do we have people without mental health challenges?

[00:53:55]Again the difference between mental health and mental disorder all of us definitely have mental health remember you are and that's why I want to do the analogy with physical you do have physical health don't you sometimes your physical health is good and sometime not so good maybe you hit your leg against a stone and then it's swollen your physical health is not good it's not a certain disease but that has incapacitated you.

[00:54:28]In the same way, we all have mental health. Some people's mental health may be challenged because of things that go on with them or just because sickness can come because sickness has come. I hope that clarification is clear. All right. Thank you.

[00:54:49]the the men are really showing it's men's weak cuz I haven't heard any female voice. Yes, >> thank you. Thank you very much. Um I have listened very well and I have found out that there are a lot of things that we can do for ourselves to keep down the pressure and the challenges.

[00:55:13]But one thing that I found out is that there is a financial aspect all the others can be taken care of through right thinking exercising good food positive behavior positive thinking but financially it's a physical thing >> evidence you there's no evidence that you have money how can you imagine that you have money >> okay >> because you said financially when the money gets there it changes the system automatically but the money is not there it is not anywhere too it is not on my phone too >> neither in my pocket how can I imagine that the money is there so that my system will be changed >> okay I think that when we looked at the self-care things we talked about the financial selfcare too you need to know what you earn right and how you live.

[00:56:15]There are too many people, especially young people, living above their means.

[00:56:25]Thousand CDs a month you want to do a,0005.

[00:56:39]It's more than your salary. Why should you do it?

[00:56:44]So you need to learn to budget, save and spend within your means.

[00:56:52]If you do that continuously, of course, you won't be rich, but you also won't be as disturbed as you always are.

[00:57:03]and you look at your income papay but the papaya cost could have done your marketing for one week.

[00:57:14]So why should you buy papaya?

[00:57:17]Why can't you keep it and you you can do that papaya in your house for maybe 20 cities but you spend it doing that. So prevention means that you need to be more intentional about your financial management and once you are doing that even over time you may be growing your wealth cuz you are always living under what you you earn. If you decide that for the thousand cities every time you save 200 and spend as if you earn 800 200 times uh 12 is how much?

[00:58:00]2004 that sounds great. You can put it in some good investment good with stress not number one good investment and it starts growing. So all this means putting thought to what you do.

[00:58:16]Thank you.

[00:58:18]>> Next, >> there's a lady at the back.

[00:58:25]>> Thank you, Doc. Doc, I want to ask, what is the difference between depression and mental health? Is it the same?

[00:58:34]>> Okay.

[00:58:36]Depression is one type of mental illnesses.

[00:58:44]Remember when I said Mental health is not equivalent to mental illness. A mental illness is not equivalent to one sickness called madness. There are different different types of mental illnesses. Depression is one of it.

[00:59:02]Bipolar is one of it. H attention deficit hyperactive disorder. Uh postpartum depression, schizophrenia and all those likes. So it is a type of mental [snorts] illness.

[00:59:20]Any more questions?

[00:59:25]>> Yes madam. Uh the ladies are are silent.

[00:59:28]Let me ask on their behalf. The BPD um the PPD currently in Ghana it's ranges from about 14 to 50%.

[00:59:38]Um I would like to know what do we do about because in greater Ara I think that has a prevalent place in greater Ara. What are we doing about it post and then >> Yes. Thank you.

[00:59:51]>> All right. So I am sure that not long ago you saw on the news that the mental health authority launched a maternal mental health policy.

[01:00:05]remember the neglect that we have had for mental health in general. Now we are waking up. So going forward maternity apart from mental wellbe you are experiencing any of this then you can be supported. One of the things that is costing us again is the human connectedness. First, oh grand, you are in your house alone by yourself and you have this baby who won't stop crying. You shout the whole house down.

[01:00:59]You don't know what to do. You are so distressed.

[01:01:02]here.

[01:01:05]So the the old practices that we had are wonderful and we should begin to acknowledge that and embrace it instead of just following blindly western way of living.

[01:01:20]>> Thank you madam.

[01:01:23]Madame chair.

[01:01:24]>> Okay. Thank you very much Ericson.

[01:01:35]Thank you very much, doctor.

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[01:02:20]mental health neighbor because by heart.

[01:03:08]Checklist. Check.

[01:03:29]Hospital.

[01:03:39]Mental hospital.

[01:03:52]Morning.

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[01:05:10]Mental health.

[01:05:27]Prevention is better than cure.

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[01:06:52]Amen.

[01:06:53][applause] Wonder Doc, we are so grateful. Thank you very much.

[01:07:22]Children's service. Vote of tanks from children's service um singing band Yeah. [singing] Yes.

[01:08:11][singing] Hallelujah.

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[01:08:54][singing] [music] Wonder.

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[01:09:30][music and singing] Oh no.

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[01:11:53]Vote of service. Vote of thanks.

[01:11:57]Uh secretary announcement.

[01:12:34]men's fellowship executives.

[01:12:44]Amen.

[01:13:01]agree announcement.

[01:13:21]Night of Hama 630, DSS men's fellowship clean up exercise 6 him.

[01:14:27]Uh, we're closing in.

[01:14:32]PH504.

[01:14:35]First two stanzas.

[01:14:38][music] be [music and singing] well.

[01:15:03][singing] [music] Oh no, she [music] left.

[01:15:14][singing] So [singing and music] let no [music] [singing] need.

[01:15:35]No.

[01:15:41][singing] Two for [music] last. Two for last.

[01:16:00][singing] I know [music] [singing] the angle. [music] [singing] [music and singing] [music] [singing] Yes, I [singing] be [music] cry.

[01:16:41][singing] I for [music] Let's come in our numbers.

[01:17:16]singing.

[01:17:36]What singervices National I don't care.

[01:19:01]foreign.

[01:19:10]Amen.

[01:19:25]Amen.

[01:19:28]Amen.