b"Could StrongMinds Stop a DepressionEpidemic in Africa?Maplewood's Sean Mayberry has a brave plan to fight mental illnessL etsbeginwithaseriesofastound- While theseBY DONNY LEVIT bleak and over- social marketer who got his start in his early twenties decide which diseases deserve the most medical at-ing statistics: Approximately 66 mil- tention, writes Heidi Ledford of Nature, then de- by joining the foreign service, which brought him to lionwomeninAfricasufferfrompression would be near the top of the list. the Netherlands and Kenya. He finished an assign-depression. Depression affects nearlyfigures may seemment at the U.S. embassy in Nairobi just six months oneinfourwomeninAfrica.Andwhelming, Sean Mayberry is working tirelessly tobefore it was bombed by al Qaeda in 1998. He has 85 percent of these women who sufferchange these statistics to offer African women a wayalso lived in the Congo and India.from depression do not have access toout from this disabling disease.I was in the Congo during the middle of the effective treatment. Mayberry, who moved to Maplewood in 2009Congolese war doing HIV and malaria work, says If the extent of human suffering were used towith his wife and four sons, is a former diplomat andMayberry. Wed be in the middle of nowhere, dis-16/ matters magazine / spring 2019"