Hyenas used to treat mental illness in Africa

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24539989

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Somalia has one of the highest rates of mental illness in the world and with a healthcare system devastated by years of war, most sufferers receive no medical help. Many are chained up - to trees or at home. Some are even locked in cages with hyenas.
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"There is a belief in my country that hyenas can see everything including the evil spirits people think cause mental illness," says Hab. "So in Mogadishu, you will find hyenas that have been brought from the bush and families will pay £350 ($560) to have their loved one locked in the room overnight with the animal."

The expensive treatment - more than the average annual wage - is as brutal as it sounds. By clawing and biting at the patient, the hyena is thought to force the evil spirit out. Patients, including young children, have been known to die during the process.
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Chaining mentally ill patients to trees has been a widespread practice in Somalia
Hab faces a near insurmountable task. WHO estimates that one in three Somalis either is or has been affected by mental illness, compared to a global average of one in 10. In parts of the country, where the population has been the most psychologically scarred from decades of conflict, the rate is even higher. Cases of post-traumatic stress disorder are common and the situation is further complicated by widespread substance abuse.
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Africans come defend this shyt. Da fukk is wrong wit ya'll? :dahell:
 
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It's not the hiccups, you can't scare them well.
 
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this happens a lot in the middle east too they just hose them down like animals. There is basically concentration camps of mentally disabled people.
 
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In one nation they cut out a piece of your brain and give you a drug addiction

In another they lock you in a room with a beast

Whos right and whos wrong?

Its so demonic, friends. :sitdown:
 
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