In 2018, Hire the Youth adopted the idea of online discussions on mental health with special emphasis given to depression. The discussions aimed at providing targeted support to young people experiencing mental health challenges. From the results gathered with the available resources at hand, the team found it best to zero down to focusing on
A quick search of #depressed on Instagram brings up over 12 million posts. Interspersed between black and white photos and gifs of crying cartoons are pictures of pretty girls smoking and the occasional sadboi-with-tattoo overlaid with text like “Help me” and “I want to go far away … forever.” These romanticized depictions of mental illness
anxiety, the mental health narrative that doesn’t get talked about have you ever tried telling someone that your anxiety might not be compatible with theirs and the first thing it made them feel was personally attacked? either they’re unmitigatedly self-absorbed or they simply lack the mental strength to see beyond themselves enough to not invalidate
Psychiatrists at Uganda’s national referral hospital for mental health have warned depression could become the second most diagnosed disorder by 2020. Serena Chaudhry from Reuters reports.
Editor’s note: If you experience suicidal thoughts, the following post could be potentially triggering. You can contact your closest friend, family member or search for Rehab centres in Uganda and get yourself admitted. When someone talks about self-harm, many still believe it’s more of a silly myth and rather a stupid call for attention. But the
When you speak of living with depression, on my side, it’s been a process of finding a way of coping and using for as long as it works, and when it doesn’t, finding the next way to cope. To be honest, I would like to sell you a story about how I ran to Jesus
I’m seated on a wooden bench under a tree shade deep in the heart of a national reserve watching a herd of elephants grazing peacefully below, oblivious of the chaotic world out there. Faced with the biggest dilemma of my life, I travelled down to this remote camping site in the south to strategize on
Editor’s note: If you experience suicidal thoughts, the following post could be potentially triggering. You can contact 0800 200 600 for counselling or Call your closest friend, family member or search for Rehab centres in Uganda and get yourself admitted. Depression is often difficult to see until the affected person seeks help. When it comes to
“You can hear rumours, but you can’t know them.” In case you missed it, Netflix released “13 Reasons Why,” a series of thirteen episodes based on the book by Jay Asher. The Netflix series had long been awaited by those who read the book and was a quick addiction for everyone, even those who didn’t
Around this time last year, I challenged myself to write and publish an article a day for 100 days straight. When I set out to start jotting down what I went through as a young depressed person battling society reforms as a mechanism of filling a void that had been missing in me for a
