How people deal with depression in Ghana | VPRO Documentary
187After a burnout due to stress, Dutch director Sunny Bergman decided to investigate how people deal with spiritual strain and depression in countries that seem less affected by it.
How do people in Ghana deal with depression? Is depression something that is discussed in Ghana? Is there even a word for depression or are people in Ghana avoiding the down sides of life? In the western world depression is more and more common but how are people in Ghana thinking about our way of facing depression?
Episode 1/3 β Ghana
Many Ghanaians do not know what depression is, and they certainly have no idea of what loneliness is. They live, work, sleep and eat together. If a member of the group gets depressed, it becomes a problem for the whole community, and they must find a solution together. Sunny experiences with the family of a friend that taking care of each other is also taking care of yourself in a way.
Does spirituality contribute to our mental health? Four out of ten people in the Netherlands suffer from depression, insomnia, ADHD and stress. Sunny Bergman studied how people in Ghana, Taiwan and Brazil deal with these psychological symptoms, in an often spiritual way. These 3 countries are just as modern as western countries, but there, traditional rituals are treated as powerful medicine. Does that approach work? And what is a normal mental condition anyway? There is hardly any country in the world that spends so much money on mental health care as the Netherlands. Where do all these mental problems come from? Are they diseases arising from abundance?
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