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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Mad in America

At this time, I also needed to pay for my second-year master’s programme and there was no money so I thought I would drop out, but God used someone to provide for me and I was able to pay and conclude my master’s programme in 2013. However, I have not been able to go for my PhD since then due to financial constraints.

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Reflections on the Silicon Valley Teen Suicides-by-Train: Fifteen Years Later

Mad in America

But I am still confused by what happened with the teen train track suicides in Palo Alto—first in 2009-2010, again in 2013-14, and yet again in 2015-16. The spate of adolescent suicides-by-train during those years was so puzzling at the time that researchers at Stanford and across the country set right in to work.