I called my brother and laughed about "Oyibo" people — white people — and their strange diseases — depression, ADD and those "weird things." Growing up in West Africa, when people used the term "mental," what came to mind was a madman with dirty, dread-locked hair, bumbling around half-naked on the streets.
Llamé a mi hermano y me reí de los "oyibos" — la gente blanca — y sus extrañas enfermedades: Depresión, TDAH y esas "cosas extrañas". Al crecer en África Occidental, cuando la gente usa el término "mental", lo que viene a la mente es un loco con el pelo sucio, trenzado, balbuceando y andando medio desnudo por la calle.