The human being is a psychological unity has an exterior and interior dimension. The twisted mind and the deprived spirit can make us physically sick. The body can affect mind and Mind can affect the body.

1. BR.SARATH THOMAS CHAMAKALAYIL
sarathcthomas@gmail.com, 919539890560

3. INTRODUCTION
The human being is a psychological unity has
an exterior and interior dimension.
The twisted mind and the deprived spirit can
make us physically sick.
The body can affect mind and Mind can affect
the body.

4. THE MIND: AN INVISIBLE REALITY
*When a thought takes place, where does it
take place..?
* When an object is perceived, where is it
perceived..?
*When an action takes place, where does it
initiate..?
Mind in Latin ‘mens’, Sanskrit-
‘manas’, Greek –‘uevoc.

5. MIND is a private sphere to which no one but the
owner has access. No one else can know our mind.
They can only interpret what we consciously or
unconsciously communicate.
The mind does not occupy a space at all. It can be
directly observable only by the person who owns it.
Only the person him or herself can think his
thoughts, feel his emotions and suffer his pain.

6. PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS: AN OUTCOME OF THE
WOUNDED MIND
Psychological or mental disorder are the terms used
to refer to a psychological or physiological pattern
that occurs in an individual and is usually associated
with distress or disability that is not expected as
part of normal development or culture

7. Cause of mental problems
Greek period: due to God’s punishment
Middle ages: a sign of possession by agents or spirits of the
devil.
Modern age: cultural norms changed the views
Psychological disorders cannot be considers as any physical
diseases.
A social worker should remember the fact that mental
illness can strike any one so there need not to blame for
their trouble

8. AS A SOCIAL WORKER WHY MENTAL PROBLEMS
HAVE TO BE SERIOUSLY DISCUSSED?
*2004 study in Europe found that approximately one on four people
reported meeting at some point in their life for at least one of the
disorders assessed includes mood disorders (13.9%), anxiety disorders
(13.6%) alcohol disorders (5.2%).
*Most hospitals in the modern world are occupied by mental cases than by
other physical diseases. 53% of all hospital patients are suffering from
psychiatry problems.
*A 2005 review of surveys in 16 European countries found that 27% of
adult Europeans are affected by at least one metal disorder in a 12
month period.

9. * About 450 million people suffering from behavioural
disorder. Four of the six leading causes of years lived
with disability are due to neuropsychiatric disorders
such as depression, alcohol use disorders,
Schizophrenia, and bipolar disorders.
*Nearly 1 million people commit suicide every year.
About 25 million people suffer from Schizophrenia. 50
million suffering from epilepsy.
*More than 90 million suffer from alcohol or drug use
disorder. One in four families has at least one member
with a mental disorder.
*Hundreds of thousands of teenagers in India are
suffering from different types of personality disorders
and several others suffering from extreme forms of
mental illness are yet not diagnosed or taken care of

10. we need to know why in this world exists
the persons with mental problems and
what is the causal factor and why we
need them to provide the social
protection?

11. SOCIAL PROTECTION FOR THE PERSONS WITH MENTAL
PROBLEMS
Social protection, as defined by the United Nations
Research Institute For Social Development, is
concerned with preventing, managing, and overcoming
situations that adversely affect people’s well-being.

12. *it should be noted that it is usual in medical science
to have a specific treatment for an illness that
results from a specific cause. This is not the case in
the mental problems.
*psychological knowledge is inevitable in dealing
with diseases
*clinical studies indicate that mind influences body
for more significantly and frequently than body
influences mind.

13. DIFFERENT KINDS OF MENTAL DISORDERS
1. Anxiety disorders : phobias, generalized , panic disorder
etc
2. Dissociative disorders : amnesia and fugue, multiple
personality disorder, depersonalization disorder.
3. Somatoform disorders
4. Mood disorders
5. Schizophrenic disorders :simple, disorganized, paranoid
and catatonic types
6. Personality disorders
7. Sexual disorders
8. Mood disorders which include depressive and bi polar
disorders , and the most prevalent suicide and alcoholic
disorders.

14. Why we should be vigilant?
Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college
students.
*There are about 250,000 suicide attempts in US each year.
Roughly one in eight of these attempts are successful.
*In India the most suicide incidents are happening in this small
state Kerala.
* It seems that great majority of suicides are linked to depression,
hopelessness, despair, alcohol and drug disorders are correlated
with an elevated incidence of

15. Some wrong concepts about
suicide....
*People who talk about suicide don’t
actually commit suicide.
* Suicide usually takes place with little
or no warning.
*People who attempt suicide are fully
intent on dying
*People who are suicide remain so for
ever
*People who threaten suicide are only
seeking attention
*Only insane people would take their
own lives
*Only depressed people commit suicide
*Thinking about suicide is rare

16. Warning signs....!
* Significant changes in eating and sleeping patterns
* dramatic change in personality or appearances *
decline in social performances * drug or alcohol
abuse * obsession with death * with drawl from
friends and regular activities * profound guilt or
hopelessness * giving away favourite possessions.

17. ALCOHOLIC DISORDER
Alcoholism and drug addiction
have been a source of serious
behavioral problems for
thousands of years in the
world.
Alcoholism is a “chronic
behavioral disorder
manifested by repeated
drinking of alcoholic
beverages in excess of the
dietary and social uses of the
community to the extent that
interferes with the drinkers’
health, or his social or
economic functioning”. (WHO
1951)

18. Alcohol consumption among Indian
teenagers especially in the metros
has gone up by about 100% over
the last decade.
more than 2,000 children of 15 to
19 years notes that 45 % of class
XII students indulge in excessive
drinking.(study by the Associated
Chambers of Commerce and industry in
India)

19. Percentage of Crimes Committed Under the
Influence of Alcohol
* Crimes in General 30% total crime
* Drowning deaths 70%
* Suicides 30%
* Completed and attempted rapes 50%
* Violence in the family 50%

20. “25% of the patients
in the psychiatric
hospitals are
alcoholics”
What we can
do?????

21. Where our social protection is to be focused?
focus - finding the cause rather than merely blaming the
person or situation.
All types of frustrations, conflicts, stresses and pressures
brought about by psychological development result in
disorganized personality and abnormal behavior.
Uncongenial family environment, unhealthy relationships
prevailing between the parents or other members of the
family may badly affect the mind of a person

22. WHAT IS THE RELEVANCE OF A SOCIAL WORKER?
“Nearly 15 crore of the population here suffer from some
or the other kind of mental illness.
January 14th 2011, The Hindu.
social work intervenes at the points where people
interact with their environments. Principles of human
rights and social justice are fundamental to social work.

23. Social workers should uphold
and defend each person’s
physical, psychological,
emotional and spiritual
integrity and well-being.
Social work must remain a
human activity and creative
activity that uses imagination,
empathy and commitment as
well as reason and evidence
and engages with people’s
emotions and vulnerabilities
as well as their rights and
obligations to ensure social
protection for the society.

24. CONCLUSION
social workers are really the shock
absorbers of the society
They are absorbing the people’s
sufferings, pains, wounds as part of
themselves.

25. The person who is suffering from such mental
problems should not be left alone and always
try to make them happy and try to talk to
them so that they don't feel alone and
negative thoughts don't remain closer.

26. “The spirit of the Lord is upon me because He
has chosen me to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the
captives and recovery of sight to the blind: to
set free the oppressed”

27. Remember ….
we are not come to be served but to
serve and to give life to redeem many
people.