Doctor Dixon trebonda, a psychiatrist in simbobway, had an idea for how to help more people in his country access mental healt services. Members of the community with mental health needs would be parried with a local grandmother. They then planned to meet up at a bench outdoors and work through problems the person was facing. In this part of the world, igma is brought about because we're trying to adopt terms that are used in the western world. If you talk about depression in my country, people think you've lost it yourself. People don't believe there's depression. But if you use the terms which which resonates with the local like in our culture, they
Dr. Dixon Chibanda, a psychiatrist in Zimbabwe, has been on a mission for years to help people gain access to mental healthcare in his community, where there's only one psychiatrist for every 1.5 million people. To bridge the gap and provide people with the help they need, Dixon turned to a rather unorthodox group for help: grandmothers.
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