Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Dixon Chibanda's organization Friendship Bench trains grandmothers to help the 16.5 million Zimbabweans that suffer from ...

Dr. Dixon Chibanda remembers like yesterday the moment in 2005 that changed his life. "During my formative years working as a psychiatrist, I lost a patient of mine to suicide. Erica was her name. She ...

At 63, Robin Baxter was in limbo: homeless, moving between family and friends, with no real place to live. “I just felt embarrassed,” Baxter said. “I didn’t really believe this was something that I ...

Mental Health America, an advocacy group, paints a bleak picture of psychological care in the United States. Almost 20 percent of Americans suffer from a mental illness, according to data from 2016, ...

Zimbabwe is pioneering a groundbreaking mental health programme with stunning results – and the rest of the world is taking note. BBC Future has brought you in-depth and rigorous stories to help you ...

It began in tragedy a patient who couldn’t afford the $15 bus fare to a hospital, leading to a devastating loss. That moment was Dr. Dixon Chibanda’s call to action. He’s a psychiatrist from Zimbabwe.

An estimated 322 million people live with depression, the majority in non-Western nations The Friendship Bench project offers basic psychological therapy from grandmothers Dixon Chibanda spent more ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dr. Dixon Chibanda remembers like yesterday the moment in 2005 that changed his life. "During my formative years working as a ...

In Zimbabwe, the term for depression is kufungisisa, which translates to “thinking too much.” Like many low-income countries, Zimbabwe is ill-equipped to care for its citizens suffering from mental ...