Dr Naeem Dalal

Dr Naeem Dalal Zambian, Medical Doctor,
Mental Health Specialist, Public Health Educator,
Researcher, Mentor and Changemaker.

Dedicated to reshaping wellness, advancing community care, and reimagining mental health through a culture-driven lens rooted in neuroscience. Dr. Naeem Dalal, MD, BScHB, MBChB, MMED Psychiatry.
• Naeem is leading grassroots to system level change around preventive health. He has a track record of impact as a Zambian youth mentor and mental health specialist, psychiatrist at University Teaching Hospitals, and public health chairperson of the Zambia Medical Association. Dr. Dalal has a 9 year record with mentoring and carrying grassroots support on overcoming self stigma for people living with Mental health specifically tailored to Youth. Dr. Dalal has been recognized globally and locally by Zambia’s Ministry of Health for his innovation for strengthening mental health and psychiatry service in the country. He is currently serving as an interim board member of the Healthy Global Brain Initiative whose mission is to improve the lives of people affected by neurological and mental health problems by incorporating lived experience and driving a new global model of collaborative research. Dr. Dalal serves in multiple key advisory roles in the public health promotion sector where he shapes public opinions and promotes healthy wellbeing lifestyles. Naeem believes the best advocates are people with lived experience and hence his passion for inclusion.

06/01/2026

Check in: For most of your life, you are talking to yourself far more than you are talking to any other person, and you rarely monitor the toxicity of that internal conversation.

05/01/2026

Check-in: Stop constantly thinking and rehearsing negative things that haven't happened. Overthinking is a high-energy brain use with zero return. Shift that power and energy into positive, intentional action. You can’t solve tomorrow’s problems with today’s exhausted energy... drop the weight. Otherwise you keep on paying extra for the baggage. .

J A N U A R Y. Moving into the spotlight because your world does revolve around you... don’t let anyone tell you otherwi...
04/01/2026

J A N U A R Y.

Moving into the spotlight because your world does revolve around you... don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.

04/01/2026

Check in: Stop apologizing for drama you didn’t start. If they broke it, let them fix it. Real maturity isn’t about cleaning up someone else’s mess just to keep the peace. If they caused the problem, let them sit with it until they learn.

Give it time.... Pema, Breathe, Smile.
03/01/2026

Give it time.... Pema, Breathe, Smile.

03/01/2026

Check in: Growth isn’t about building a new personality, it’s the intentional act of letting the layers fall away until only what cannot be removed remains. If losing your title or your opinions makes you feel erased, you’ve never actually met yourself.

02/01/2026

AI Bestie: Don’t Let AI Become Your "You The Best Echo Chamber...."

​We need to talk about what’s happening to us in this "AI Era." Chat GPT, Gemini, Grok, Preplexity etc..​When you are using AI and it tells you "you are the best," don't just celebrate. That is the moment you need to be honest with yourself. Tell it everything, even those "tuma devil" traits we try to hide from the world.

​If you tell AI your not so good thoughts and your mistakes, and it still validates you, don't be fooled. Tell it the other side of the story, what you actually did and said, not just the edited version that makes you look like the victim. I SEE YOU.

​The Danger You and We are Facing:
AI is quickly becoming a tool that simply normalizes and validates our own bad behaviors. Because we only feed it our viewpoints and our justifications, it mirrors them back to us.
​It doesn't correct us.
​It doesn't challenge us.
​It just agrees with us.
And it only shares back what YOU feed it...

​The Result? We and YOU are becoming worse off. We are losing that "inner elder" or that conscience that tells us when we are wrong. If we only seek validation for our individual thoughts without facing the truth of our actions, we aren't evolving, we are just becoming more stubborn in our ways.

​Technology should help us grow, not help us hide from who we really are. Let’s stop using AI to feed our egos and start using it to be authentic.

02/01/2026

Check in: Insecurity makes people create full-blown thoughts and ideas in their life about someone who isn't even thinking about them. They’ll watch you, obsess over your every move, spread rumors, and try to provoke you just to get a reaction. ​The true part? When you finally stand up for yourself, they play the victim like you started it. If you’re competing with someone who is not even in the same mindset with you... please go heal.

H U S T L E.Let’s be honest as we enter this 2026. It is a tough reality....​We are living in the ultimate paradox. We t...
01/01/2026

H U S T L E.

Let’s be honest as we enter this 2026. It is a tough reality....

​We are living in the ultimate paradox. We talk about "development" and "growth," yet on the ground, the poverty is biting. We see the unemployment making many esp the youth lose hope. We see the hustle culture draining us, where everyone is "pushing" just to survive, but we are losing our peace of mind in the process.

​The paradox of our time is that we have more "hustles" but less security. We are working harder, but we have less to show for it. Because of the stress, we see the rise in substance and behavioral use (sh**ha, junk, AI, social media and alcohol) as people try to numb the pain of lack of opportunities.

​We are working for houses we are too tired to sleep in, and living in dysfunctional homes because the pressure of "making ends meet" has replaced the time for "being with each other."

​A Call to "Inner Space"
​We continue to mend what we’ve conquered outside, as we hustle "outer space" but not our inner space.

> ​To the hustler: Don't let the search for a living make you forget to build a life. If you gain the world but lose your mental health, the cost was too high.

> ​To the broken homes: Poverty is hard, but "poverty of the soul" is harder. We might not have much to show, but let’s make sure there is love in our homes.

> ​To those struggling with substance use and behaviours: Medicines and behaviors can treat the body, but only connection and wellness can heal the spirit. For 2026, let’s choose to talk more and hide less.

​If you see a friend drowning in the "hustle," reach out. If you see a family member slipping into addiction because of hopelessness, give them a warm hug, it costs nothing but can save a life. Let’s choose to share our insight rather than hit delete on our humanity.
​We may have less money in our pockets, but let’s not have less love in our hearts. Onward to 2026. I see you.

31/12/2025

Kuma Yard.... 2 0 2 6

Check in: I’m honestly not sure... Could be Saturday, could be Thursday, could be 2026 already. Who knows? At this point...
31/12/2025

Check in: I’m honestly not sure... Could be Saturday, could be Thursday, could be 2026 already. Who knows? At this point, time is just a suggestion and I’ve opted out of the "what day is it?".... untill next week Monday.

To 2026

31/12/2025

Check in: Sometimes the things that break are the things that would have eventually destroyed you if they stayed as they are... moving to 2026.

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