Brava: Psychologist warns of the need for society to take care of its mental health
The psychologist responsible for the Cape Verdean Institute for Children and Adolescents (ICCA) in Brava, Mileida Cabral, warned today of the need for society to take care of its mental health and asked for more attention to others.
Mileida Cabral was speaking to Inforpress after holding an open conversation held at Escola Básica de Nossa Senhora do Monte (EBNSM), aimed at parents and guardians, highlighting that the objective is to raise the awareness of participants about the importance of taking care of mental health.
According to the same source, it is “important” for people to be more attentive to each other, to be able to offer help, as, he highlighted, human beings need to “slow down” and be more present in the “here and now”.
The psychologist also considered it “very important” to raise people’s awareness to ask for help when necessary.
For her part, Liliana Lobo, one of the participants, stated that it was an “interesting” conversation and that it was “clear” that depression is affecting young people as well as children and the elderly.
“We also learned how to identify some symptoms and learned that the disease has a treatment”, he declared.
Furthermore, Rosa Pina thanked the psychologist for her willingness to inform parents about the disease and highlighted that all these clarifications were of “great importance”.
