Some may have a pre-existing depression or anxiety disorder. Some may have a personality disorder prior to that experience of believing that their genitals had disappeared, retracted, or were taken by someone else. Though some may not be diagnosed with pre-existing psychiatric disorders, sometimes you may be able to tell when you interact with such a person. You may be able to identify some psychiatric conditions in the person that may be evolving.
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As humanists, we need to work and campaign for a more critical thinking society. We need to invest in the promotion and application of critical thinking skills in all areas of human endeavor. At the Humanist Association, we encourage the creation of critical thinking spaces to help beat back the tide of dogma, blind faith, and superstition-based abuses. In the months ahead, the Humanist Association of Nigeria will follow, with keen interest, the activities of the Critical Thinkers Corner in Ebonyi state.
“The youth got the same pastor and beat him up as well. Help came when the police got to know and rescued them. It is too bad because there is no element of truth in this. Since the history of these allegations, it has never been proven and the complainants are usually advised and told that nothing was wrong with them.”
While the belief in the existence of occult and other paranormal phenomena exists in all cultures, there is something untoward about the way this belief is expressed in Africa which has led some to conclude that our belief systems are at least part of the reasons why the rest of the world have left us behind in political and economic underdevelopment. Perhaps the African cosmology, which is intensely spiritual, predisposes us to a pattern of belief that verges on the superstitious.