It is believed that everyone is susceptible to mental illness and that any person can slip into madness at any given point in time. The President of the American Psychological Association, Dr. Philip G. Zimbardo, thinks all it may take to trigger the process is a special kind of blow to one's self-image to push someone over the edge of sanity.

When you hear a musician shouting, "I dey mad, oh, I dey go crazy," and another one sings, "Ole seka ni wo ye," meaning do you know how mad we are? And a third person hitting the side of his head with a clinched fist and shouting, "Abodam" (madness); then, no one should tell you that things are knocking and that "they are slipping coming."

These are some of the reasons why I want to applaud President John Dramani Mahama for promising two brand new psychiatric hospitals sometime ago.

Coming back to the issue of mental illness, some common symptoms of the disorder are delusions, characterised by seeing visions and hearing voices. That is not to say it is wrong for people to see visions; please don't get me wrong. I'm a Christian, and I believe in visions and prophecies.

Now, coming back to my point, I'm not against prophecies. There are genuine pastors in this country who are doing awesomely well. My pastor, for example, is one of the greatest gifts to our generation; the grace in his life is unimaginable. He can see and reveal deep spiritual matters, but he says he is not a prophet. Good beads do not rattle, indeed.

Unfortunately, some "men of God" are becoming a disgrace to Christianity. When some of them gave fake prophecies about matches involving the Black Stars during the AFCON not too long ago, I said to myself, Abakade, they are slipping.

But as soon as I heard some of them say that they have the power to determine who becomes the next president of the Republic of Ghana, I cringed and said to myself, Sosket! Things are knocking on things!