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Mental health experts have said the use of force or punitive laws in suicide prevention can affect the desired outcome, and said rather, care, love and listening ears are required to win over individuals with suicide ideation.
Trauma, Shame, Stigma: Nigerian returnees lament burdens of failed migration Young Nigerians, whose dreams of a successful life abroad did not materialise, are coming home traumatised by their experience, only to be met with shame and stigma on arrival. 4 min read “When I came back, I was scared to go home – I was so skinny that my family could not recognize me. In fact, my daughters said I was not their mother. I cried and cried,” Happiness recalled. A mother to two little girls, she was narrating the emotional distress of coming home after 19 traumatic months in Libya....