Schizophrenia cases are not all the same; what triggers one person’s symptoms might be innocuous to another. Unlike depression and anxiety, which are the Cadillac of mental health...
A 19-year-old lady Ayomide Adebayo who had been arrested by the Lagos State Police for dumping her two month old baby in a bush has once...
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:...
“Can I inherit a mental illness?” I want to consider this very important question through the lenses of familiar cultural beliefs about inheriting mental illness. You...
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...
“You’ve started again, abi? Your madness has started again.” Sade stared at her father. “Yes, daddy. I’ve started again. Shey I’m your mad daughter? I’ve started...
Sunday was Mother’s day, and this week (May 11-17) is Mental Health Awareness Week 2015. So in honour of both, I’ll be talking today about a major mental health issue that...
Mr Paul Olafare, an award-winning pharmacist and respected leader in his church passed away on 12th April 2015. The circumstances surrounding his death, and whether it was by suicide (as alleged by...
On Tuesday, March 24, 2015, a plane crashed into the French Alps less than an hour after takeoff from Barcelona, killing 150 people. That was tragic,...
Nollywood has stepped up plenty in the last decade or so, and become we can be proud of. From oldies (sort of) like Ije and Figurine,...
So the other day on the Fox show, Empire, one of the main characters experienced a bipolar episode, and on Twitter, a mental health advocate went...
My name is Ayomide Adebayo, and I’m a psychiatrist. Okay, quick one: when you read that, what was the first thing that came to your mind?...
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