“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...
No one will willingly admit to suicidal ideation – the intense obsession with the thoughts of death. This is not necessarily the thoughts of taking one’s...
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...
There are a few things about mental illness that get me upset, and today I’m going to talk about one of the biggest. (Yes, this is...
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?...
A woman, who is said to be mentally unstable, reportedly abandoned her new-born baby by a roadside in Abule Egba. Residents in the area knew the...
A Consultant Psychiatrist, Femi Olugbile, on Friday said 90 percent of Nigerians with mental disorders did not visit their healthcare providers for attention. Olugbile, who is...
According to the father of the Nigerian-American man who jumped over the White House fence, his son suffers from mental health problems. Victor Adesanya, the dad,...
It is reported that two students of UNILAG committed suicide in January. The first, Damilola Durojaiye, a computer science student hanged himself while his parents were...
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