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    "content": "do not know what the outcome will be and so many things go through your mind. That is depressive psychosis ailment and you cannot run away from it. Would you say that you are not sick? You are sick and all you need is somebody to come and tell you that it will be alright with you. You need a counsellor or your supporters coming to tell you: “Yes, we will make it in these elections.” As a result, you brighten up, go out there and speak with force. Ailments like simple depression can be handled by a well trained health worker or through counseling. It involves going to the hospital in the normal way and being checked for various things that require counselling. You will be told the reason you are down and what you need to do. Some people have very queer interpretation of mental illnesses. They say somebody has been bewitched or has some spirits from the devil. This is a human being that has no different spirits than what you have in you. We need to look at this and deal with it manually. Madam Temporary Speaker, just to give you a scene, globally, there are about 450 million people who have depressive psychosis and mental illnesses. When you look at this group and try to analyse them, they are low income groups and people who are poor. We then ask a fundamental question: Why would the low income group or poor people be depressed and have mental illnesses? It is obviously the daily needs of the family, requirements in the households, school fees or some cattle which have been stolen by somebody and they cannot replace them. They are very simple things. Once you take corrective measures along those lines, these people will come back to normalcy. We need to recognize that point and do the necessary. It is a disorder of the mind; the mood. When we talk when not angry, we are normal. But when you are angry, you are sick. That is a mental illness. Anger is an expression of inward frustration. You want to vent out your anger. That is why sometimes in funerals, when people cry, we let them cry out, so that they vent out that loss. It creates a vacuum that they feel is very difficult to fill. Let them vent out, but not excessively. We should be able to advise them to go back to normalcy. It is just a question of mood. In our daily experiences, we go through this phase. Our moods change. In the families, children change their moods against their parents. Husbands and wives change moods and start fighting. That is a mental illness. If they can sit down and reason together, they will move forward without any difficulty. There is also thinking. You may think about money, which is the source of evil. Money has caused more havoc than anything else. People want to know how to earn money. That is why we have some of these miscreants in society and antisocial elements developing. In pursuit of wanting to satisfy their ego and interests, they go into areas that are dangerous in terms of behaviour in the society. Therefore, we need to be careful about people looking for money. That is where we get petty thieves coming from. These are all metal illnesses. Why should one steal if they are normal? They should ask for it if they do not have it. They steal because they are disturbed. They do not know how to survive. They go to the extreme extent where they become violent robbers and everything else. Madam Temporary Speaker, I wish to ask for a little more time, so that I can dress up this Motion. The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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