The Somali-American Therapist Bringing Her Work Home

[Dontcomefome]

The capital of Somalia is the coastal city of Mogadishu, a thumping, humid, relentless town of battered but unbeaten people who have lived through an extraordinary amount of upheaval. Like the rest of the country, Mogadishu felt the collapse of any semblance of governance in the early 1990s. Since then it has been divided between war-lords, controlled overtly and covertly by the militant group Al-Shabaab, and destabilized by corrupt, violent politicians propped up by the international community and the United Nations.

When Rowda Olad, 36, a Somali-American, returned to Mogadishu in 2011 after her family fled nearly two decades prior, she was struck by the total absence of therapeutic services for this rattled country. At the time, Olad was a student at The Ohio State University (she chuckles, making a point to say the requisite “The”) and had been deciding whether to major in psychology or psychiatry. While in Somalia, she visited the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu. “There was no capacity,” she recalls. “There was a dire need.” The one psychiatrist there was doing his best, Olad says, but he was heavily medicating all his patients. Olad recalled that a lot of people were on large doses of sleeping pills.

The Somali-American Therapist Bringing Her Work Home

Rowda Olad’s Mogadishu psychotherapy clinic is helping Somali citizens process their collective trauma.

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[Jaydaan]

Mashallah there is no occupation needed more than therapist in Somalia. 30 years of struggle. People need to be retrained how to be humans

 

[Dontcomefome]

Mashallah there is no occupation needed more than therapist in Somalia. 30 years of struggle. People need to be retrained how to be humans

Wallahi mental illness has followed us into the diaspora I've seen old Somali men talking to themselves, and homeless sadly

 

[jabsveg276]

Mashallah there is no occupation needed more than therapist in Somalia. 30 years of struggle. People need to be retrained how to be humans

The capital of Somalia is the coastal city of Mogadishu, a thumping, humid, relentless town of battered but unbeaten people who have lived through an extraordinary amount of upheaval. Like the rest of the country, Mogadishu felt the collapse of any semblance of governance in the early 1990s. Since then it has been divided between war-lords, controlled overtly and covertly by the militant group Al-Shabaab, and destabilized by corrupt, violent politicians propped up by the international community and the United Nations.

When Rowda Olad, 36, a Somali-American, returned to Mogadishu in 2011 after her family fled nearly two decades prior, she was struck by the total absence of therapeutic services for this rattled country. At the time, Olad was a student at The Ohio State University (she chuckles, making a point to say the requisite “The”) and had been deciding whether to major in psychology or psychiatry. While in Somalia, she visited the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu. “There was no capacity,” she recalls. “There was a dire need.” The one psychiatrist there was doing his best, Olad says, but he was heavily medicating all his patients. Olad recalled that a lot of people were on large doses of sleeping pills.

The Somali-American Therapist Bringing Her Work Home

Rowda Olad’s Mogadishu psychotherapy clinic is helping Somali citizens process their collective trauma.

www.google.com

Mashallah, people back home are probably fighting mental demons

 

[Basra]

The capital of Somalia is the coastal city of Mogadishu, a thumping, humid, relentless town of battered but unbeaten people who have lived through an extraordinary amount of upheaval. Like the rest of the country, Mogadishu felt the collapse of any semblance of governance in the early 1990s. Since then it has been divided between war-lords, controlled overtly and covertly by the militant group Al-Shabaab, and destabilized by corrupt, violent politicians propped up by the international community and the United Nations.

When Rowda Olad, 36, a Somali-American, returned to Mogadishu in 2011 after her family fled nearly two decades prior, she was struck by the total absence of therapeutic services for this rattled country. At the time, Olad was a student at The Ohio State University (she chuckles, making a point to say the requisite “The”) and had been deciding whether to major in psychology or psychiatry. While in Somalia, she visited the only mental health clinic in Mogadishu. “There was no capacity,” she recalls. “There was a dire need.” The one psychiatrist there was doing his best, Olad says, but he was heavily medicating all his patients. Olad recalled that a lot of people were on large doses of sleeping pills.

The Somali-American Therapist Bringing Her Work Home

Rowda Olad’s Mogadishu psychotherapy clinic is helping Somali citizens process their collective trauma.

www.google.com

OK ... Rowda is an angel for doing this , do not get me wrong. But fobs cannot take talk therapy seriously. IN fact i am afraid they will take advantage of this creature by faking things to get money or resources. I do not see any somali woman sitting and telling her deeper secrets or issues to a diaspora xalimo who does not enunciate aaf somali competently. The whole thing is absurd.


Now she can open a mental psychiatry there, and run the clinic well with exercises and motivation and the dispensing of medications with moderate rate.

 

[CDG89]

Wallahi mental illness has followed us into the diaspora I've seen old Somali men talking to themselves, and homeless sadly

This is so sad. There needs to be better services for homeless people in the western world.

 

[King Khufu]

excellent article

 

[Cerberus]

I need her Psychotherapy. Stocks and Crypto drove me nuts