Mentally Retarded (Mad) Persons Don't Live Healthy Longer Life

Mentally retarded person

It is believe in Nigeria that mentally retarded people do not fall sick. It is also believe they do not die  on time. Onlookers expect to see them feeling more sick at one corner and die from their health condition. They reason that these persons in most cases eat dirty foods on the street in critical mental cases. They even walk barefoot on dirty places, and in long distance without getting medical care. From their physical looks, they are ok, looks well fed, healthy and doing well.
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Mentally retarded persons that are mad (bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, chronic anxiety) do fall sick. In fact, they fall sick more than normal healthy persons. According to an analysis by Oxford university psychiatrist, it has been shown that serious mental illness reduce life expectancy by 10 to 20 years. More than 8 million mentally retarded persons die worldwide annually. They went on to explain the reason for such short life expectancy. Most mentally retarded persons take high risk like accident or smoke more than normal persons. They also do not take care of their health like physical exercise, medical adherence, and poor diet.
Another problem is that mental illness make worse some physical illness and these can be mask by the mental illness. They may not be able to visit a health care center for treatment because they may not know that there is treatment or in minor mental illness fear stigmatization.
If they die early, why do people still carry the notion that they don't die on time? It is because they expect them to die sooner. Some people will even say things like 'this one last' when one of them die even if it is in their 50s.
Another thing is that when they fall sick, they don't complain to others. And since nobody listen to them or touch them, they cannot tell when they are sick. No one monitors them how frequent they go to toilet. No one can tell how often they fall sick.

Unverified Theories Why Mentally Retarded Person Look Healthy

Even if they fall sick more often than normal, it is true they don't die immediately from their sickness. It is known that some carry very serious sickness yet last month's or even years. This is not the case with normal healthy humans. That is why I still believe the reasons below is correct even though it has not be proven.

Brain Dead

It is believe that mentally retarded persons brain is partly dead. When they are hurt, they don't feel any pain or emotion. Some mad person can take serious beatings without blinking an eyelid. The same is said about them feeling any signs and symptoms from other health conditions they are facing because the brain did not interpret the symptoms hence they forge ahead. It is believe that even those that know only think about how to forge ahead hence only think about the next available food.
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Active Immunity

Just like we can develop immunity to some deadly disease, it is believe that mentally retarded persons get double. Since immunity is development of resistance to an infection after suffering from it before, mentally retarded persons may get it. It is known that Nigerian are more resistant to malaria parasite compared to the Western world because of the level of exposure to malarial parasite. So one can say mentally retarded persons have stronger immunity against many infection than healthy individuals because they are more expose to different types of infection hence can develop resistance.
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