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Mental Health: Overcoming Depression
Koro Kamara, Penda Dime, Diara Ndiaye and Margot.
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By: Diara Ndiaye Follow
1 min
Focus on mental health, an essential component of health, according to the WHO.
Anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia or even depression, here are some of the psychological disorders.
Depression is the most common mood disorder in the population.
280 million people suffer from it worldwide and nearly 30 million in Africa, very often without any medical follow-up.
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Young Africans are not spared from this often taboo and therefore ignored evil, which nevertheless causes great suffering and impacts the professional, educational and family levels of those affected.
What is depression?
What are the symptoms and treatments?
How to preserve and rebuild your mental health?
Studio guests:
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Koro Kamara,
clinical psychologist
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Penda Dime,
founder of Event by P, an event agency
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Margot,
marketing consultant.
Red thread guest:
Nicole Ahongbonon,
psychiatrist in Benin.
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