Morris Maina

02/02/2024

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22/11/2023

Many complex trauma survivors get triggered by disapproval, not because we're "thin skinned"-- but because approval, disapproval, acceptance, & rejection were wielded by abusers to control us.

02/04/2023

People attempt su***de for varied causes. Some of the them are:

1. Depression. This is, without question, the most common reason people die by su***de. Severe depression is almost always accompanied by a pervasive sense of suffering as well as the belief that escape from it is hopeless. The pain of existence often becomes too much for severely depressed people to bear. The state of depression warps their thinking, allowing ideas like, "Everyone would all be better off without me" to make rational sense

2. Psychosis. Malevolent inner voices often command self-destruction for unintelligible reasons. Psychosis is much harder to mask than depression, and is arguably even more tragic.

3. They're impulsive. Often related to drugs and alcohol, some people become ‘foolishly sentimental’ and impulsively attempt to end their own lives. Once sobered and calmed, these people usually feel emphatically ashamed. The remorse is often genuine, but whether or not they'll ever attempt su***de again is unpredictable. They may try it again the very next time they become drunk or high, or never again in their lifetime.

3. Related to impulsivity, are personality issues that present dramatic, emotional or erratic behaviours such as borderline, histrionic and narcissistic personality disorders. Suffice to note is that people in this category shows problems in relating with others, attention seeking and are self centered. Individuals in this category are at a higher risk of committing su***de.

4. They have a philosophical desire to die. The decision to die by su***de for some is based on a reasoned decision. They often look at their choice to die by su***de as a way to shorten a dying that will happen regardless.

09/03/2023

GAMBLING ADDICTION

GAMBLING can be as much fatal and perversive on an individual's life as drug addiction, with effects on both personal and social life. Monetary value of resources lost to gambling should not be the only focal point of addiction to gambling, but also the expense of broken families, decline in social functioning, career loss and on the overall mental health. Compulsive gambling most often involves spending lots of one's time in gambling joints or placing bets. Sometimes individuals foregoing self-care activities such as eating or grooming; either as a result of extravagant spendings in gambling or having little or no time for self.

Its by nature for human beings to avoid pain and seek pleasure and personal nourishment. For gamblers, the extra coin in wining represents the pleasure while a loss or a streak of losses can be as painful as bereavement.

In the early stages of gambling the motive is usually to win the grand prize or atleast recover the amount lost in previous games. This however changes with time as gambling becomes a self-reinforcing behaviour.

As a gambler proceeds from the experimental and social stage to compulsive gambling, conditioning occurs; taping into the brain's reward system but indirectly through the pleasure of winning. This implies that the individual must strive to win at every game in order to attain a 'high' which unfortunately may result into a streak of losses. A loss at this point presents in the same way as withdrawal or a low from drugs, thus the strive is to hit a win in order to boost the morale, regardless of the amount lost in previous bets.

When not checked, this turns in to a vicious cycle- individuals tending to place bets thoughtlessly.

16/11/2021

Regarding the school fires, what I have experienced here on social media are just mere blame games. The parents blame the teachers of not 'handling children well', the teachers blame parents for raising pampered children- the ill raised kababa and kamumm, students blame the school system for being 'harsh' on them, the society blames the children for indiscipline and immaturity. Who among them is righ and who's wrong. Who is not playing their part?
The reason why we are not getting any near to the answer is because we have decided not to look at the issue in wholesomeness. We are looking at the issue as different fragments independent of each other while in real sense the factors are interactive and dependent of each other, the dynamic is the point at which they converge. What most of us have been looking into is socialization of the children-a single element of the equation leaving pretty much the bio-psychological part of the equation. We have to accept that there is a set of predisposing, precipitating and perpetuating factors to the behaviour.
What we need first to understand is the stage of adolescence as a turbulent stage, full of confusion and conflicts. This is the period at which they experience fluctuations of sexual hormones( the reason for agression and some other vices) as well as in their psychological make-up as they struggle between finding their identity and independece in the midst of role confusion and a conservative environment that takes them as a child. The young man/woman in his teens is generally violent, wants his presence noticed, they are egocentric, look at peers as their frame of reference whereby peer pressure and formation of 'gangs' na zile 'mbogi' present widely. This, I believe is the reason we experience a trend where schools are burnt one after another, like a mass hysteria.
In addition to this, morality is built on the ground of consequential and utilitarianism philosophy,

31/10/2019

27/09/2019

Dropping a CV???

28/08/2019

Su***de is far more understandable than people think.