Suicide
#2. We know suicide happens, but we “know” it doesn’t happen among Nigerians (or blacks, or people of our faith, or whatever group we belong to that we consider “different”). I still had to explain this to 2 fellow doctors as recently as yesterday. I kid you not. Doctors
Media appearances
Ms Kabangu: Okay. I shall go straight into it if that's okay? Doc Ayomide: Yes it is. Ms Kabangu: Firstly, the notion of mental health — is it a Western concept? Doc Ayomide: No it's not. Traditional African cultures recognised mental illness long before the whites came.
Healthcare
AIG orders mental tests on Lagos policemen. (I actually was late to the party as it had been announced since mid-August and I only happened on it by the end of the month.) But you know when you see something that leaves you uncertain whether to laugh or to cry?
resources
And one more thing: don't be discouraged if you get a high score that suggests there's a problem. It's actually much better to know there's a problem than to not know. Knowing the problem has a real name (and you aren'
Mental illness
So I was invited by the lovely Dr Vivian Ikem to her event to help create awareness on depression. Here's an excerpt from the news report on the event by The Nation Online: While the book reading took on a congenial and jovial bearing, nuggets of informative material
Pain and Recovery
I was about 14 when two of my closest friends lost their fathers and another one lost a brother, all within 12 months. Their bereavement was my first personal experience with death. For some reason I can’t now remember (the books I read probably), I knew enough then to
Mental illness
And what can YOU do to help? This piece was originally posted on Bella Naija. I had a client once who had been involved with a cult. And in telling me about the experience, it was striking to observe the swinging between recognising how messed up the experience had been
Uncategorized
The problem with the way our leaders talk, and what it says about how they—and we—think I recently passed Ikorodu Road and realised the under-bridge traffic of road-crossers was gone, because a wire fence now divides the road. I thought it was simply brilliant. No more of the
Human nature
Here’s why — and my ideas for how. I taught myself to code as a kid. It was only in QBasic (this was in the late 90s and although Windows existed, MS-DOS and floppy disks were still a thing), but it was an amazing experience nonetheless. I’d been lucky
Christianity
I’ll never forget the woman. She was middle-aged, visibly sick, and surrounded by a foul-smelling odour that on closer examination, emanated from her breasts. Her diagnosis: stage 4 breast cancer. It had been diagnosed over a year earlier, at an earlier stage. Surgery had been advised then, but that
Specific mental disorders
That’s really all there is to it. Now before we get into how this works out… Fast facts 50 million: number of people with epilepsy 1 in 10 people have had a seizure before 80% of people with epilepsy live in low and middle income countries (LAMIC) 70% of
Christianity
The fantasy of Ursula K Le Guin, Adam’s first job—and me ADAM NAMED THE ANIMALS, we were told as kids. And if you heard anything like the version I heard in Sunday school, he was apparently going round saying, “Hey, you’ll be ‘Monkey.’ And you, you’re