Case A: Afolabi is the 3rd of 5 children and the parents are successful entrepreneurs with a chain ofbusinesses. Once the children graduated from the university, they were all integrated into the familybusiness to varying degrees of success. Afolabi clearly had a good head for the business, he interactedwell with... read more →
Apr
11
Apr
04
Umar is a 6-year-old boy, whose mother is a civil servant and the father a successful businessman. He isyet to speak in a meaningful way. He is often pre-occupied with his own world, playing alone and doesnot seem to show any emotional attachment to the parents or his older siblings.... read more →
Mar
28
Case of Abdul: Abdul is an 8-year-old boy Primary 4 pupil who is usually cheerful and happy.However, he is struggling to cope with the sheer volume of homework they were expected tocomplete on a daily basis. His Mother, a busy medical doctor initially attempted to help him,but soon realized that... read more →
Mar
21
Bose has not been feeling quite well for the past 6 weeks now. She is tired all of thetime, cries for no specific reason, sleeps poorly and has lost her appetite. Her attentionis no longer good and she simply cannot bring herself to concentrate on any task.Nothing interests her anymore... read more →
Mar
07
Hajia Amina was excited to be pregnant, within a year of marriage. She read many articlesaround health and safety during pregnancy and she marked every milestone with pride. Sheduly registered for antenatal services after making enquiries for the best facility where herpregnancy could be supervised, and she could be rest... read more →
Feb
29
The Jemila Abubakar Memorial Essay (JAME) competition is an essay competition centered on a topical mental health issue, organized annually by the Asido Foundation for undergraduate students of Nigerian tertiary institutions in memory of Miss Jemila Abubakar, the organization's pioneer program manager, who passed away in July 2020 after a... read more →
Feb
22
Tade is a young Nigerian graduate who was posted to a state in a different region of the country for his National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) program. He was excited about traveling and exploring the new environment and culture for the 12 months duration of the NYSC. He was assigned to a secondary school as his... read more →
Feb
15
Two scenarios happened recently that clearly illustrate the costly nature of ignorance around mental illness in our society. CASE A: In 2020, a young female student and poet took her own life. According to her friends who wrote tributes about her, and her own Facebook posts, she apparently had a chaotic childhood, was sponsoring... read more →
Feb
01
There is a disturbing viral video of a former award-winning national lawn-tennis champion, Tanya Okpala, a bi-racial Nigerian lady (Ukrainian Mother), with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder and borderline personality disorder. Tanya was seen wandering the streets of Awka, Anambra State. In the video, she narrates her sad experience of being laughed at, called many names such as prostitute, drug user and... read more →
Jan
25
Bolanle is a 32-year-old lawyer whose husband, Akin, was first diagnosed as having bipolar disorder when they were still undergraduates. They had been dating for the past 3 years and he had become her rock and pillar. They were simply inseparable. It had started with his becoming reclusive, not picking up her calls and... read more →