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There is a strong, proven, and theoretically explainable, link between all forms of Neglect & Abuse and Serious Mental Ill Health. Prejudice, Neglect & Interpersonal Abuse lead to Social Stigmatism, Social & Cultural Isolation, Inter Cultural Conflict and Institutional Abuses & Neglect, affecting all ages. Misunderstanding and poor management of this powerful process, is what generates and perpetuate Serious Mental Health problems, what ever assumed predispositions people may, or may not have.
World Health Organisation (UN) identified, nearly 30 years ago, that these problems are greater in the Advanced World than they are in the Developing and Under Developed World. The episodes of Serious Mental Ill Health are more frequent, more enduring and more disabling in Western Cultures than in any other Cultures. All the evidence now, is that this problem is getting worse and is affecting a larger proportion of the young and the elderly ("Mental ill health epidemic").
