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
Suicide is fast rising into the leading cause of death for 18 to 25-year-olds, therefore, it is vitally important to know the signs and how to help someone who may be at risk of it. Research shows that most people who attempt suicide give some sort of clue before they make an attempt. Therefore, understanding
Editor’s note: If you experience suicidal thoughts, the following post could be potentially triggering. You can contact 0800 200 600 for counseling or Call your closest friend, family member or search for Rehab centers in Uganda and get yourself admitted. Let me get this off my chest; I am very depressed to the extent that
“People don’t die of suicide, the pain keeps piling day by day, bitterness and unworthiness fills our hearts, agony is all we have left and getting rid of that sadness is quite the best option.” For me, September is the month where the fears of the past keep haunting me however much I loathe to
Whenever I write, it’s coming from the perspective of the person who is mentally ill and fighting depression. And usually alone. I have never had a stellar support system, and as an adult, I’ve really struggled to make long-lasting or true friends. That said, people have asked me what a friend and loved one can do for
I am, for various reasons, not particularly open about the state of my mental health on social media, even though I write about it freely on Bustle. Reasons abound: I don’t want to “be a bother”; I’m concerned about gaining a reputation as unreliable or erratic; my condition (severe depression) is slow and long and boring, rather
I write about mental health because we need to be having daily conversations. Mental health needs to become as “normal” to talk about as physical health. We need to talk about it in communities, in schools, in churches. Mental health is social. I can’t get to know you if I don’t have my mental health.
We met at school, we were both 16 going on 17, I didn’t really like her much at first; she actually really annoyed me, but we ended up being in a relationship until we were 22. Out of respect for her privacy i’ll refer to her as G. G wore glasses, she was clumsy, into some unusual stuff,
