Remove 2012 Remove Community support Remove Poverty and mental health
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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Mad in America

We were living in poverty with my siblings and life was difficult. In 2012, during my master’s programme, my younger brother got sick and could not get appropriate treatment so he died. Community support workers and peer support workers had a supervisor who carried out activities in delivering the intervention.