USA Africa Dialogue Series - on being a mental health patient for 38 years.lambo at 100 a tribute

On being a psychiatric patient; a mental health user and survivor,,my personal experience since 1985,

my doctor have included professor oye Gureje, certified by stanford university as top one per cent in the world, please se wikipedia. then presently i have professor Gabriel ivbijaro ,president of the world dignity project and ex president o the world mental health association ,from edo state EDO BEST! i have also being treated by dr kunle sokoya the only psychiatist now working in a secondary school,life fotre high,badan, lucky children. laosebikan was another simply known as lash.he does not miss the medical journals ,,then there was JIBODU, the stern looking one and falade or fagadem

with roving eye balls

and the controversial one professor jude ohiare because he combines psychiatry with the study of astrology,, the yorubas say, ai gbo ifa ni a nwoke, ifa kan o si n i para the little monk in the play Galileo seems to suggest that to galileo a play by bertolt brecht, that its not being at home with matters o ground hence we begin to scan the sky for solutions ,there are no such answers in the cloud.

yesterday was the 100th annivesary of the birth of the foremost African neuro psychiatristm proressor thomas adeoye lambo. Thomas Adeoye Lambo, OBE[1] (March 29, 1923 – March 13, 2004) was a Nigerian scholar, administrator and psychiatrist. He is credited as the first western trained psychiatrist in Nigeria and Africa. Between 1971 and 1988, he worked at the World Health Organization, becoming the agency's Deputy Director Generall

i have been privilege to be traeted at he professor lambos unit for paranoid schizophrenia. i have not only been treated by western trained Doctors but also traditional doctors

both worlds, traditional medicine and western have their benefits and draw backs

in western medicine for instance the medication, i found to be very convenient but you are mde tobe aware that you have a problem by the many actions and words of the doctors,nurses, and medical students and your movemnt s restricte to the hospital ward but in the traditional practice a i have exoerince you are free to move around even to the markt place. it seems the yorubas believe that if a mad man goes to the market place he would never come back normal.they also believe that mad men are good dancers.

in traditional medicine there is no demarcation, you are taken as part of the family s

ypu are not told you have a problem but if you misbehave you might be flogged or put in manacles#the medication from the traditional doctor may prove tobe unpalatable.it was a ig bowl of a green concotion which i had to consume all of it at the appearance of the moon,noe that word LUNATIC is taking from Lunar, meaning of the

moon.i have also been treated by meta physicians and occultic physicians and one necromacist

the occultic physician s dr atagana somewhere in idi ose near the uiversty of ibadan,an ex biafran soldier, ex seminarian,them there is the meta physician, dr adegboyega mabinuori are lato sisa,the equivalnt of an english lord and chairman of the code of conduct of astronauts before the astronauts, EGUNGUN,author of the holy book of IFA.to my usa friends,what is ifa? well ifa is divina,data,statistica,mathematica,bilogica,zoolologica,pharmacopia, encyclopaedia,parapherneia,aurira and more,that is ifa

then there is alhaji tajo of tajo memorial hospital,oke foko,private detective,healer,farmer,buildr,hunter and necromacist.

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