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Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Depression and Other Illness Nigerians Are Not Meant To Have
I remember seeing the series Glee in my university days,one of the characters has chronic OCD and I recall laughing with my friends about it because in Nigeria you can't be diagnosed for liking clean places,heck,you're more likely to be praised(you're even a better wife material)...guys will be like,"oh she likes to clean? I better marry her quick then". Have you not wondered how Nigerians in the diaspora are allowed to suffer from these type of illness but not Nigerians in Nigeria? Like there are things you don't have the luxury to be ill of,but the question is apart from our sense of humour(which is frankly disturbing)what exactly do we have going for us? You know a cleptomaniac in Nigeria is a thief,there is no such disease.
So what exactly do we have going then??? Is it the witch hunting government,poor educational system,systematic and annual outbreak of epidemic,bad health care(good ones are very expensive),our national reaction to things,the mismanagement of our beautiful natural resources,the blatant disregard for the people by the government? Why exactly will someone say," you're a Nigerian,get over your depression you have no reason to it". It's because we've grown accustomed to suffering, we've accepted it as our birthright so we must therefore not complain. We work jobs where they pay us 50k and 40k of it goes into transportation but hey!at the least I have a job right! We've accepted mediocrity, so we don't expect so much from ourselves. We don't even aim for good things. In the case of diseases Nigerians can't suffer from,a man commits suicide and instead of asking for the cause,people wonder how he could even think of it and actually goes ahead with it meanwhile another man does the same thing while we are castigating the first. We are not allowed to be depressed,maniacal,suicidal or have OCD but wait, Ebola is totally acceptable, so is Lassa fever,bird flu,meningitis and many more, because these are more fitting and worthy?(I am seriously confused here) Why do the African believe the only way out is the hard way out? Why are girls advised not to report rape to save their reputation which is already destroyed anyway? Why does the African have a crab mentality? Wasn't it funny how the indigenous whites of south Africa raped their land,subjugated them,killed and generally subdued them but they attack fellow Africans for their misery? The question is, in the case of Nigerians and those sicknesses they are not allowed to suffer from,who's winning??
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