Dr. Frank Njenga

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24/11/2016

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16/11/2016

Have a look at my BUSINESS DAILY AFRICA article which focuses on Depression.
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09/11/2016

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03/11/2016

Have a look at my BUSINESS DAILY AFRICA article, which focuses on the importance of gender equality in the workplace.
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31/10/2016

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26/08/2016

Please have a read and comment on my BUSINESS DAILY AFRICA article.
http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Why-physicians-must-keep-better-work-life-balance/539444-3355418-phognyz/index.html

Doctors are human beings and suffer from all the physical, psychological and emotional problems that you also can suffer from.

18/03/2016

Last week I was at a social function and was asked a question I have been asked more times than I can remember. As was the case in the past, the question is asked more as a joke than a real question. Over the years, I have come to learn that most people ask the question in all seriousness and mostly for themselves or their loved ones......It goes something like this. "Doctor, is it true that we are all mentally ill and only the degree matters"
If in a crowd there is much embarassed gigling before all move to more comfortable and less personal topics like politics.
The truth is that not all people suffer from mental illness but all people have the POTENTIAL to develop menta illness in their lifetime.
Put another way, if you live long enough, you have a 20 to 30% chance of developing a diagnosable mental illness, wheather you are a King or pauper, wheather you live in America or in Kenya wheather you are muslim or Cristian. All you have to be is human.
That said,there are conditions that cause confussion in the minds of the lay public because, the disease and common feelings have the same name.
Every human beeing feeels depressed at one time or another. Wheather it is an argument with a parent or spouse, or being let down by a date can lead to feeling depressed. This is NOT an illness and must not be confused with the mental illness of the same name,depressive ill.
For a simplified, short, accurate explanation of the difference go to the Chiromo Lane Medical Center (clmc.co.ke) website or to their facebook account and view the video "what is depression"

17/03/2016

A newly published report has very good news for teenagers in Europe. The rates of smoking and dinking among teenagers is coming down as the level of parental involvement involvement in their daily lives goes up.
There is reason to expect that this finding from Europe is likely to hold true in Kenya.
The link between teenage alcohol use and mental health problems in later life is well established. It therefore follows that parental involvement in the daily lives of teenagers is a strategy for the promotion of mental health in later years.
The teachers and parents have a special and growing role to play in the identification of teenagers with mental health needs. One of the first signs that all is not well with a teenager is a drop in academic perfomance. When a teacher notices an A student going down towards C and D, then that must raise alarm bells.
The other common sign is poor discipline. Many "good" children who have not come to the attention of school authority before do so for the first time because of rudness, teliing lies, fighting or general disobidience.
Some depressed children will for example get themselves in trouble for drinking or smoking and making sure they are caught.
These children are asking for help not punishment!
Before punishing an otherwise good performer who has changed behaviour recently, consider adolescent depression.

01/03/2016

There is increasing concern about violence in the home. A man is reported to have killed his children by poisoning while a woman is in trouble for allegedly killing her husband in a love triangle.
The list goes on and on and questions now being asked are wheather indeed we are becoming a more violent society.
The simple and very sad truth is yes. We are indeed a very violent society. The more difficult question is why.
There is much speculation about the role played by different factors but the one that seems to come up time and again is the role played by alcohol and other drugs.
It might be a good time now to examine the role of alcohol abuse in the may cases of violence at home.
We also know that some people injure their loved ones as an act of "mercy" when they are themselves so consumed in depressive thoughts that they feel they would all be better off dead. Such persons belong to hospital not the courts or jail.
The matter of domestic violence is very wide and complex and demands greater attention by all, after all it has so many causes.

01/02/2016

After a prolonged period of absence from facebook I have agreed to come back and will be posting a number of things that might be of interest in the coming weeks and months.
As before, the focus will be on mental health isssues......A good place to start looking is the Chiromo Lane Medical Center website....It has many useful articles, on topical subjects such as depresion, schizophrenia, alcohol abuse among others topics.
There are useful self assessment tools that some people find useful before making and appointment with a mental health expert.
A number of educational video and audio tapes are also featured.

09/09/2014

Cancer is becoming an inreasingly common diagnosis in Kenya.
A recent study in the UK shows that many people with cancer also have depression as an additional disease as oposed to natural sadness due to the diagnosis.
The study further shows that if the diagnosis of depression is made and the patient is put on treatment for BOTH the cancer and the depression , the outcome for the patient is much better.......threfore sadness in patients with cancer is sometimes due to a treatable medical condition, and not just the fact of the diagnosis.