You are entitled to Your happiness!Yes, that's right, you actually own the rights to your
happiness. You have a choice every day, to wake up and smile.You can be happy at the beginning of the day, and
during the day, and yes, before you go to sleep, it’s okay to be happy.During this year 2020, the world has fallen to its
knees. Everyone, in all countries of the world are focused on something we have
no control over.The Coronavirus Covid_19 has become a common
denominator in conversations. It’s the one thing we can agree matters to most
of us, and our families. It has become of source of fear, a sense of dread, and
even a mood of hope. In the darkest moments we can find hope.The Fear is based on what
we don’t know, and because there seems to be a lot of certainty surrounding a
cure. While the World Health Organization (WHO) has given general and basic
guidelines for global management, it’s the managing or lack thereof which
triggers fear. The sense of dread
is really associated wit…
A culture of misinformation
I did not know what mental illness really was until I was close to twenty. Before, I thought mental illness was something which resulted from a deficiency at birth and was genetic. This thought scared me as I grew up knowing my mother, grand mother and great grandmother were ‘mad’, as we were told from a tender age. My mother was the first of five children and my grandmother was one of more than five, and my great grandmother was also from a large family. No one told us about mental illness or what caused it or why it happened. I simply thought it was an unfortunate curse on at least one member of the family, and prayed to never 'get it'! Some of the 'folklore facts' I grew up with were; If you kept your problems to yourself you would ‘overload’ and go crazy.If you fell too much in love you would go crazy.If you had too many bills you would go crazy.If you had no friends you would go crazy.If you were too ‘bright’ in schoolwork you would g…
I did not know what mental illness really was until I was close to twenty. Before, I thought mental illness was something which resulted from a deficiency at birth and was genetic. This thought scared me as I grew up knowing my mother, grand mother and great grandmother were ‘mad’, as we were told from a tender age. My mother was the first of five children and my grandmother was one of more than five, and my great grandmother was also from a large family. No one told us about mental illness or what caused it or why it happened. I simply thought it was an unfortunate curse on at least one member of the family, and prayed to never 'get it'! Some of the 'folklore facts' I grew up with were; If you kept your problems to yourself you would ‘overload’ and go crazy.If you fell too much in love you would go crazy.If you had too many bills you would go crazy.If you had no friends you would go crazy.If you were too ‘bright’ in schoolwork you would g…