Lack of accessibility may be pushing Nigerians to self-diagnose mental illness, but it doesn’t have to be the only way

However slow going, the conversation on mental illness continues to shift from the dark place of shame and silence it had occupied for years in Nigeria to a place of seeking to understand, even if we sometimes bungle the conversation in our attempt to bring it to life. Take this discussion on Twitter about what... Read More

Non-binary Blog

anxiety, depression, mental health, Mental Illness, nigeria, PTSD

May 8, 2021

Emotional abuse, Shame | Top non-binary tweets we saw from Nigeria this week

The conversation about the themes that make up our flywheel on the nonbinary blog are constantly evolving. We collate a weekly list of interesting tweets we saw from Nigerians on faith & spirituality, gender, sexuality, mental and emotional health, and disability. Enjoy, add to the conversation or simply expand your worldview. Shame remains one of... Read More

More, Non-binary Blog

Christianity, emotional abuse, Faith, gender-based violence, Mental Illness, physical abuse, shame

May 6, 2021

Nigerians on managing their mental health without therapy

Managing mental illness can be daunting even where access to therapy is easy. And Nigeria is not a place where therapy comes with easy access. Estimates by the World Health Organisation (WHO) of the ratio of psychotherapists to population put the number at 1 to over 600, 000 and 1 to over 100, 000 psychologists. The... Read More

Non-binary Blog

mental health, Mental health month, Mental Illness, Therapy

March 30, 2021

Suicide is on the rise and all we have is a mindless political leadership

How do you convince a government to declare a state of emergency on the increasing rate of suicide? Specifically, how do you convince the Nigerian government – whose antecedents with disregard for the lives of law-abiding citizens is a stuff of legend, to care enough about the increasing desperation that could be the cause of... Read More

Non-binary Blog

mental health, Mental Illness, nigeria, suicide, WHO

March 18, 2021

Kanye West is a successful ‘mad person’ | What this means for people living with mental illness in Nigeria

There are a thousand and one reasons to centre conversation today around America’s richest ever black billionaire, Kanye West. For reasons clear as day – humanity’s affinity for happy tales, we have collectively chosen to face one aspect: the latest wealth he amassed, $6.6bn worth of it. It is worth reminding Nigerians of all demographics... Read More

Non-binary Blog

$6.6 billion, billionaire, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, mental health, Mental Illness, nigeria

January 14, 2021

What we learnt from the touching experience of 3 Nigerian men suffering from mental illness

A frantic search for Digital Strategist, Ayodele Bandele – known simply as Dele, which lasted barely a day has turned up a body and a suicide note. The note – left privately for his closest friends, found its way to the internet somehow. While this is a tragedy that is essentially that of Dele’s friends... Read More

Non-binary Blog

Ayodele Bandele, Mental Illness, nigeria, RIPDele, suicide

September 7, 2020

How we think about mental illness | The Daily Vulnerable

by Dami Odiachi Maybe it’s the same for depression. The other day I got an email from a reader. He said that his boss was a toxic individual and believed that quitting would alleviate his depression. Maybe it might. Maybe he’s right. But, there’s a chance that he isn’t. Sometimes we eat undercooked chicken and... Read More

The Daily Vulnerable

Dami Odiachi, depression, Mental Illness

August 31, 2020

When things happen | The Daily Vulnerable

by Dami Odiachi Some people are battered by tragedy. Mother dies, father dies, murder, rape, violent assault, unemployment, ailments of body, and they find it within themselves to face every day without fear or anxiety or crippling sadness. Some people are not so lucky. They could date a tolerably abusive person and come down with... Read More

The Daily Vulnerable

Dami Odiachi, Mental Illness, The Daily Vulnerable, when things happen

August 25, 2020

Art stands a viable mental health cure but why do we still ignore this?

On an extraordinary Sunday morning in May, two dozen health workers, donned in scrubs and face masks followed the smooth sound of a saxophone out onto the lawn outside isolation tents. While the health workers danced outside the tents, the patients inside the tents danced as much as they were able to. Some swayed their... Read More

Why did Punch Newspaper trivialise mental illness with this insensitive cartoon?

Mental illness has since stopped being a fringe topic, at least on Twitter wherein we constantly encounter suicidal tweets and online missives that indicate depression, anxiety, etc. While it’s important that everyone should take care of their mental health, we are witnessing an explosion of mental illness and related cases with young people, and suicide... Read More

Thinking Through

Mental Illness, Punch Newspapers

October 25, 2017

Opinion: The suicide cry for help that we often miss

by Isa Eneye Mubarak The problem about suicide is that one makes a permanent, irreversible, irrevocable treatment of a temporary problem, but still, it is becoming a trend in Nigeria. When one is suicidal, they just want to be out of their current situation or their miserable lives, and they see death as the escape... Read More

Opinion

depression, Mental Illness, nigeria, opinion, suicide

August 12, 2017

Opinion: Stemming soaring cases of mental illness in Nigeria

by Jide Ojo So many strange things are happening in Nigeria today that give goose pimples. Often times, I ask myself if those who indulge in many heinous crimes reported in the country are normal. There is a tendency for many people to think that only those in hospitals or invalids are sick. Indeed, there... Read More

Opinion

Mental Illness, Neuro-psychiatrist hospitals, nigeria, opinion, Public health

January 16, 2017

#Impact365: “Mental health in Nigeria is shrouded in myth” | MANI aims to burst the myth and reduce stigma

Mental health is the state of a person’s psychological well-being and in Nigeria, the discourse of mental health is largely ignored. Even when discussed, mental health is often related with spiritual problems with victims being discriminated against. Because of the absence of a mental health system in Nigeria, people with mental illnesses and disorders hardly... Read More

Citizenship, Featured, Thinking Through

awareness, Impact365, MANI, mental health, Mental Illness, NGO, psychiatrist, Religion

October 30, 2016

Re: Pastor Sam Adeyemi | The mental riddle of the Nigerian thought process

If there ever was a book written to try to capture the Nigerian thought process, it would definitely have not some but all (and some more) of the following as themes: Na God I sabi pass you Racing to conclusions selective amnesia There are others -“suffering and smiling” and resilience – that should never be left out... Read More

Citizenship, Featured

citizenship, daystar, Mental Illness, nigerians, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, Twitter NG, twitter.

October 30, 2016

The Thread: “Mental illness is not your fault”

There’s a lot to be said about how we treat persons with mental illness in Nigeria. And in a way, Pastor Sam Adeyemi’s tweets presented the platform for that discussion to be had. As the controversy regarding mental health issues and Pastor Sam Adeyemi’s tweets this morning still rages on Twitter, @ adebolarayo gives us a glimpse... Read More

Mental Illness, nigeria, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, twitter wars

October 30, 2016

The Thread: How to deal with mental illness | The Sam Adeyemi tweets that shook the internet this morning

Pastor Sam Adeyemi, senior pastor of Daystar Christian Centre, tried to talk about mental illness, and caused a bit of a furore on Twitter this morning. He tweeted that the root cause of mental illness is sin. The response to that declaration is sweeping. There is now an ongoing discussion on Twitter on the merit of... Read More

Christianity, Mental Illness, nigeria, Pastor Sam Adeyemi, Sin, stigma

September 20, 2016

Opinion: My friend, Ufan suffers from mental disorder…

by Eketi Edima Ette My friend, Ufan, has bipolar disorder. At first, what we thought were normal mood swings got worse. The periods of quiet, like the calm before the ominous storm, became shorter and easier to recognize. The highs became wilder, more unrestrained. One moment, Ufan was happy as a lark and the next,... Read More

bipolar disorder, Mental Illness, nigerian myths, psychiatry

June 22, 2015

Graduate found dead after recovering from mental problem

A 28-year-old graduate’s body identified simply as Kehinde, was found in a well in Ketu. According to reports by PUNCH the victim had been declared missing before his bloated body was found in an abandoned well in their house on Friday. Apparently, Kehinde had a strange mental illness for about five years and was always indoors but was said... Read More

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dies, graduate, Mental Illness

November 14, 2013

Opinion: Clara Chime scandal – It’s governor’s wife in Government House, so what’s the problem?

by Josef Omorotionmwan It will be unfair to totally ignore the dilemma of Governor Chime. We are possibly looking at a mental case. What does a man do if his wife has gone totally berserk? How does he export her abroad — cage her or crate her, the Umaru Dikko style? We saw real agony... Read More

Clara Chime, Enugu State, femi falana, Governor Sullivan Chime, josef omorionmwontan, Mental Illness, opinion, ynaija

November 13, 2013

SHOCKING: Man, 24, arrested for butchering his mother to death in Bayelsa

by ‘Jola Sotubo A 24-year-old man has been arrested in Bayelsa on suspicion of murdering his 67-year-old mother. The suspect, identified simply as Godsgift, is said to have butchered his mother, Rose Jonny, at her home in Oloibiri, a community in the Ogbia Local Government Area of the state. Godsgift is suspected to have gone... Read More

arrested, Bayelsa, Butcher, man kills mother, Mental Illness, nigeria, police

September 28, 2013

A tale like no other: 7 members of the same family struck with (mysterious) mental illness

For the family of Mr Ogbonnaya Ani in Umuose Urobo, Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, life can’t be more cruel to seven members of the household now afflicted with madness one after the other. The Ani family is being ravaged by the spirit of madness. Take this: Ogbonnaya Ani’s elder brother’s daughter... Read More

Insanity, madness, Mental Illness, same family, seven members, tradition

August 24, 2013

BIZARRE: Undergraduate ‘runs mad’ after buying loaf of bread in Oyo

by ‘Jola Sotubo Commotion erupted at the Eleyele area of Ibadan on Wednesday after a young man who seemed perfectly normal suddenly began to act strange. The young man, reported to be a student of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye, Ogun State, conducted himself normally when he got off a commercial bus and bought a... Read More

Eleyele, Ibadan, Mental Illness, university student

May 30, 2013

Islamic radicals could soon be ‘cured’ by science, leading neurologist claims

A leading academic has claimed that religious fundamentalism could soon be treated in the same way as mental illness. Kathleen Taylor, a science author and research scientist at the University of Oxford, told the Hay Literary Festival techniques were already under development to help curb radicalised beliefs. She also claimed behaviours such as hitting children... Read More

leading neurologist, Mental Illness, Muslim fundamentalism, Science

April 21, 2013

Man arrested for having sex with a horse for 7 months (WATCH)

A man was arrested after he was caught with his pants down in his neighbour’s barn. A horse owner saw a man, who was later identified as 47-year-old Tony Hall-Rivas, running from her barn. He was in the process of pulling his pants up. The woman became suspicious and she called police. The woman contacted... Read More

Mental Illness, sex with a horse, sodomy, Tony Hall-Rivas

January 29, 2013

“Jordan Ministries is an occult, almost all women there are divorced” – Mother of mentally ill member alleges [DETAILS]

by Chi Ibe Lagos State police are investigating a case in which an elderly woman, Florence Omotehinwa checked her unwilling 40-year-old daughter, Toyin Ndiomu, into a psychiatric hospital for attending a church she claims brainwashed her. At the Farri Psychiatric Hospital, Omotehinwa, said that she had done nothing wrong to put her daughter in there but was working in... Read More

feature, Mental Illness, Psychiatric Hospital, Religion-And-Mental-Illness

January 25, 2013

Adebola Rayo: On dealing with mental illness (30 Days, 30 Voices)

imagine that in a better society, I would have been diagnosed as a teenager. Nigeria needs to get to a point where mental illness is not a stigma; it starts with the individual For over a decade, I’d known something was not quite right with me mentally. I’d been living with the needless, sad... Read More

Adebola Rayo, Borderline Personality Disorder, Mental Illness, stigma, treatment

January 16, 2013

#MentalIllness: No one can ‘choose’ to be mentally ill, and it has no regard for social status, tribe

by Rachel Ogbu There is no simple answer to the question: what causes mental illness as there are lots of reasons why someone might develop it. They might inherit it from their family, it might be because of their lifestyle or it might be because of things that have happened to them in the past.... Read More

causes of mental illness, dementia, genes, mental health, Mental Illness, OCD, psychotic type symptoms, Schizophrenia

December 17, 2012

“I will kill you”: An American mother shares the gripping story of her 11-year-old mentally ill son

by Liza Long Friday’s horrific American national tragedy — the murder of 20 children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut — has ignited a new discussion on violence in America. In kitchens and coffee shops across the country, we tearfully debate the many faces of violence in America: gun culture,... Read More

Asperger's, Autism, Blue Review, Connecticut Shooting, Liza Long, Mental Illness, Newtown Elementary School Shooting, Newtown School Shooting, Parents News, Raising Boys, Raising Children With Autism, Sandy Hook Elementary School Shooting

Lack of accessibility may be pushing Nigerians to self-diagnose mental illness, but it doesn’t have to be the only way

Emotional abuse, Shame | Top non-binary tweets we saw from Nigeria this week

Nigerians on managing their mental health without therapy

Suicide is on the rise and all we have is a mindless political leadership

Kanye West is a successful ‘mad person’ | What this means for people living with mental illness in Nigeria

What we learnt from the touching experience of 3 Nigerian men suffering from mental illness

How we think about mental illness | The Daily Vulnerable

When things happen | The Daily Vulnerable

Art stands a viable mental health cure but why do we still ignore this?

Why did Punch Newspaper trivialise mental illness with this insensitive cartoon?

Opinion: The suicide cry for help that we often miss

Opinion: Stemming soaring cases of mental illness in Nigeria

#Impact365: “Mental health in Nigeria is shrouded in myth” | MANI aims to burst the myth and reduce stigma

Re: Pastor Sam Adeyemi | The mental riddle of the Nigerian thought process

The Thread: “Mental illness is not your fault”

The Thread: How to deal with mental illness | The Sam Adeyemi tweets that shook the internet this morning

Opinion: My friend, Ufan suffers from mental disorder…

Graduate found dead after recovering from mental problem

Stating your opinion & 6 other things you should NEVER feel guilty about

Opinion: Clara Chime scandal – It’s governor’s wife in Government House, so what’s the problem?

SHOCKING: Man, 24, arrested for butchering his mother to death in Bayelsa

A tale like no other: 7 members of the same family struck with (mysterious) mental illness

BIZARRE: Undergraduate ‘runs mad’ after buying loaf of bread in Oyo

Islamic radicals could soon be ‘cured’ by science, leading neurologist claims

Man arrested for having sex with a horse for 7 months (WATCH)

“Jordan Ministries is an occult, almost all women there are divorced” – Mother of mentally ill member alleges [DETAILS]

Adebola Rayo: On dealing with mental illness (30 Days, 30 Voices)

#MentalIllness: No one can ‘choose’ to be mentally ill, and it has no regard for social status, tribe

“I will kill you”: An American mother shares the gripping story of her 11-year-old mentally ill son

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