Niabingi - Interview 01  

Niabingi - Interview 01

Age at Interview: 42
Sex: Female
Age at Diagnosis: 25
Background: Active service user; single. Ethnic background/nationality: Black-Caribbean (British born)

Brief outline:This 42 year old Black, British born woman was diagnosed at the age of 25 with paranoid schizophrenia but disagrees with the paranoid part. She believes that her mental distress was caused by the racism she experienced when growing up.

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She says different professionals had different responses to her using herbal remedies and that the white professionals were very sceptical.

 



No, but the black professionals have talked about my diet. Yeah. They haven't really, I mean they haven't really offered any alternative, although some of them I, I, yeah they've talked about my diet, they have talked about my diet and said, you know, things that can help apart from… you know, the medication. And not just that but they've been open to, so, when I talk about herbal remedies they've been more open to me sort of like trying it out and, and, and, you know, and, and, and the benefits of herbs, you know. Whereas the white, the white professionals have been very sceptical about herbs and the benefits that they could possibly have and, “Oh just take your medication [Niabingi], you know, you'll be alright, you don't want this and you don't want that.”  They haven't been adventurous, you know, with, with how I see my healing, you know, to, in what form my healing could take.

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