Majority of people all over the world experience a mental health issue each and everyday of the life that we live but we have not yet come to realize what mental health is or what can happen to us if we experience a metal health problem or a mental health breakdown.

Mental health includes our psychological, emotional, physical and even our social well-being. Mental health affects our daily activities of our lives in that it affects how we think, how we feel and even how we act and react towards different things and various approaches in life. With mental health, every individual learns how to control their emotions, how to relate with one another under different circumstances and also how to handle stress.

Mental health is a very important key in every step of one’s life, that is, from childhood to adolescent and from adolescent to adulthood. Many people all over the world experience mental problems. Mental problem can get worse if it is not taken care of or controlled.

Tragic experiences for example accidents, death of a child or even rape can cause trauma which may later to depression that may again lead to a mental health problem.

All over the world , when someone is experiencing a mental health problem (MHP), how they think, how they behave and their mood and even how they talk is affected.
As mentioned above, here are some of the few reasons that may lead to one having a mental health problem or a mental health breakdown:

Trauma and abuse
Trauma can be defined as a deeply distressing or disturbing experience while abuse can be defined as a cruel and violent towards a person.

Such experiences like rape, domestic violence or even discrimination and gender equality may lead to traumatic experience that may later on lead to a mental health problem.

Biological factor e.g genes
Anyone can be born with a mental health problem depending with the genes or brain chemistry. According to the U.S. NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE, brain chemistry can be defined as changes in the amount of various chemicals (neurotransmitters, receptors, enzymes and other metabolites) specific to the area of the central nervous system contained within the head which enables the brain to carry out it’s daily functions such as generating movements, thinking, speaking, listening and regulating the systems of the body.

Family history of mental health problems
In some families, a family member can experience a mental health problem when the problem is believed to have been inherited or passed down from one generation to the other generation in a family’s lineage in the history.

Our main focus towards mental health problem should me how to take control of the problem and to stop more cases of mental health problems and mental illnesses all over the world. For self care, in order to control mental health problem, one should avoid drugs or any other substances that may create stress on their body and also engage themselves in a daily or regular physical exercises or go for counselling and also attend or seek medical guidance or see a therapist.

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Adelle Onyango once said,’’ your voice is valid. Your art, work, and talent are valid. You are needed, you can do it. Create it, do it, because you can. You are OTHER. Rise in your OTHERNESS. Refuse to reduce who you are.”

Sometimes we wonder why or how some things happen under our watch and we fail to question because of the fear of judgment. The society always thinks that they have control over people’s feelings and emotions. It’s always going to remain a fact even if the majority don’t accept it, every individual is responsible for their own doings and the society has no right to interfere or even in the least get concerned about a person’s private life or what a person has decided to do with their life.

Behind every smile, everyone is going through personal struggles we know nothing about. Majority of people, especially the youth end up living a messed up and a regrettable life almost all their life because they fear the society and what the society thinks of them.
For instance, why is it always justified that an older man can have a wife they wish to have despite the difference in age and they can have as many wives as they wish but a woman all because a society cannot have a husband half her age or twice older than she is when it’s not a crime to get a spouse of your own choice. We take too serious what society thinks that we fail to put ourselves first. It’s high time we have to prioritize ourselves and our opinions towards everything and speak up for we don’t have to get stunned.

According to The Cambridge University Dictionary, society can be referred to as a large group of people who live together in an organized way, making decisions about how to do things and sharing the work that needs to be done.

We can not sit and let society take over and control what we decide to do with our lives for we have to fight and stand for ourselves as youths.

As MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. said, “there comes a time when silence is betrayal. When we keep silent and not speak up against any injustices that we face in society we are only betraying our own souls.”

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In Kenya, some communities for instance the Kuria community practice child marriage whereby a girl is married off to an older woman’s home who is not able to bear children to bear children for that family in a tradition called Nyumba Boke.

The Kenyan government has managed to control the act of child marriage in majority communities in Article 21 regarding prohibition of child marriage. However, some countries in the African continent such as Ethiopia still carry out child marriages.

Majority of communities in the world carry out child marriage for different reasons. Some communities engage in early child marriage because they believe when a girl starts to menstruate she has become a woman and that she is ready for marriage. As a tradition, the community leaders marry them off for they believe it’s a generational growth and a belief in their tradition.

Young girls in other communities can also get married off by her family to eradicate poverty. A girl is married off and a bride price is offered to her family members because some parents or families believe that girls are a burden to them and they have more expenses and when the family cannot afford their expenses, they tend to marry them off and this also leads to gender equality.

Insecurity in some areas may also lead to child marriages for example in communities where they still experience ethnic clashes with their neighboring communities may put girls in great dangers and crisis among them being rape. This leads their parents to feel it’s in their best interest to get them married off at an early age to secure them and to maintain their dignity and protect their family honour. It also helps to avoid early pregnancies that may be as the result of the sexual assault.

Child marriage is a violation of Human Rights. The government and it’s people should help put an end to this unreasonable act in order to secure the future of the young girls in our communities. Instead of shutting down the young girls’ dreams, we should unite and carry out different demonstrations and educational activities that help put a stop to this insane act and support our children’s dreams and future at large

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