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When Mental Illness and Spiritual Possession Present Similarly

My son was diagnosed with schizophrenia but my grandmother insists it's spiritual possession that needs traditional treatment, and I'm terrified of choosing the wrong approach.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Competing explanatory frameworks for psychological distress force impossible choices between medical intervention and ancestral wisdom.

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“Where Are You with African traditional healing traditions?”

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