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Anxiety, revolution, kidnapping: therapy secrets from across the world The Guardian
‘People with psychosis usually end up with a healer’: Nigeria Oye Gureje, professor of psychiatry Banditry, terrorism and kidnapping are on the rise in Nigeria, and life is not getting any less chaotic in our cities. These are factors that predispose mental health problems, and although we don’t have good survey data on this, we probably have more problems than other countries. We have 250 psychiatrists serving 200 million people. That’s barely one per million – an incredibly low number. For most Nigerians with common mental disorders like depression, anxiety, PTSD or some degree of substan…
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