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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
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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
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BellaNaija. In the first part which you can read here, I explained the inheritance of mental illness: how it works, and why the answer to the question is, “Yes and no.” You can enjoy this post without reading that first, but be sure to check it out, because that’s
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And that’s where we need to begin… How does heredity work? So I need to explain the following concepts first: - Heredity - Genetic - Familial To answer your question properly, I need to explain each of these terms. Are you up for a crash course in genetics? (It’
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Bella Naija. This version is lightly edited for clarity.
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“Mental Health: The Missing Piece in Maternal Health.” It's a blog series co-hosted by the Maternal Health Task Force and the Mental Health Innovation Network at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, as well as Dr. Jane Fisher of Monash University. Find the original article on
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Why the attack on Ambode is retrogressive for mental health This post was first published on my blog, DocAyomide.com. So I woke up the other day to this piece of news going round: I was upset by that headline, but I thought, “Let me read the article first before
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why it's not fair to lump terrorists together with people who mental illness, and a friend of mine replied thus in an email: I agree with your conclusion just that I really think mentally people are more violent than other people. Not because the mental illness makes them
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AfricanHadithi, an online magazine about Africa by Africans on everyday African experiences. In a post on AfricanHadithi, I talked about how Tinsel has not being as helpful as it could have to the cause of mental health and disorders, and one of the things I said was that the show
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We talk a lot about mental illnesses, but what if the word itself creates a subtle problem?
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A closer look at what risk factors are, and how they work in mental disorders. Part 2 of a look at "causes" of mental disorders.
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The short answer is, “Nobody really knows.” The long answer? That's the rest of the post.