Re: Why 70% of Nigerian men are depressed – Report

.... is a SERIOUS SIGN of DEEP-DEEP DEPRESSION .

All the Igbos that have abused me for being sagacious and understanding things and sharing them with them must at some point apologize to me.

I was fresh out of graduate school, worked only four years, after quitting my teaching job and working for a county mental health division (age 34) when the white man saw me as unusually talented in mental health matters and made me the executive director of his county mental health agency in Portland Oregon. I supervised psychiatrists who were older than my father. Folks used to ask where I got my brains and knowledge.

Because I was married to a white woman, her culture directed me to white folks; I stayed away from Nigerians. After years of staying away from Africans I came to their midst and read the abusive stuff they write. It did not take me long to realize that the slave selling culture they lived in, for over three hundred years, damaged their self-esteem and perception of each other. They put each other down
(Njakiri) for they had to devalue each other to be able to sell them into slavery.

OZODI OSUJI - MANY IGBOS ARE DEPRESSED AND MASK IT WITH PARANOID GRANDIOSITY!

In his books, The Paranoid Process (1978) and Psychotherapy for the Paranoid process (1986), William W. Meissner noted the correlation of depression and paranoia. Paranoia or sense of false
importance and power, he said, is a mask over underlying sense of inferiority and inadequacy.

The paranoid person feels excruciatingly inadequate and fears death; he refused to accept that reality, for if he did he would be depressed.

Instead, he denied his depression, at least, at the conscious mind level and places his spurious sense of superiority over other people in his conscious mind.

In this light, many Igbos feel totally inferior and inadequate and deny it at the level and instead place in their conscious minds their false sense of superiority to other African tribes. They are always comparing themselves to other tribes and to the extent that they think that they approximate white man’s indices of civilization (such as go to school, obtain degrees etc.) they boast about it. They constantly tell people that they are a superior people.

The white man sees Africans as inferior people and instead of fighting him Igbos tells their fellow Africans that the white man sees them as the smartest Africans! Why? It is because the white man admits a few of them to his top universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Caltech, MIT, Berkeley, UCLA, Oxford and Cambridge.