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[telophase]

If you're interested in how other cultures treat mental illnesses, this is an interesting article by a Westerner who underwent a ritual treatment for depression in Senegal. (Note: animal sacrifice, if you're squicked by that. Also on Esquire, if you're squicked by that. :D)

I especially draw your attention to the final four paragraphs, in which a Rwandan explains why they asked some Western mental health workers to leave after the genocide.*

* This is not to disparage Western talk therapy! But there are many and varied ways of treating things, and sometimes one works better in that place and with that person.

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

And then I had to kind of shuffle over, all tied up in intestines, which most of you probably haven’t done, but it’s hard.

Ha ha.

Thanks, that was a cool article.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I want to tag that quote "It could only happen to Rachel."

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I'm honestly a bit surprised that such a thing has never happened to me.