We are facing a global mental health care crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic has only made it worse. For too many people, mental health care is not good enough and there is still too much stigma around talking about the issue. We know that everyone has a story – whether that’s about themselves, a family member, a friend or colleague. In this podcast, we are going to hear some of those stories and explore how we can reduce some of the stigma, improve the patient experience and ease suffering. W ...

This is a brief account about my story and why and how I was diagnosed with schizophrenia in 2000 in London, UK due to experiencing sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse and emotional abuse as well as inter-generational trauma and inter -generational poverty whilst living in Onitsha, Nigeria. My father Ejoh Aloysious Abuah was a former Nigerian Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. He was a very evil wicked monster who displayed violent and abusive behaviour to ...