In the fast-paced, high-stakes world of startups, the path to success is often paved with unexpected challenges and an emotional state of great disturbance, confusion, or uncertainty. The startup experience can feel like a relentless rollercoaster, leaving many founders and teams grappling with a phenomenon known as “startup trauma.” Startup trauma is the cumulative stress and emotional toll that the startup journey can take on individuals and teams. It’s not a formal diagnosis, but it captures the profound impact high-pressure, fast-paced environments have on mental and emotional well-being. Common signs of startup trauma include burnout, anxiety, depression, isolation, and a crippling fear of failure. These experiences can leave founders and…
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We need more mental health awareness drives
She woke up today feeling low and lonely, she expressed this to her beloved. He told her to stop seeking attention where there was no need. Rudely, he pushed her over and walked away. Now she lays in a coffin. Her beloved doesn’t understand why. The increased need to teach/educate each other about the problems of the mind should be taken seriously. If he had paid attention, given her a hug. She wouldn’t have committed suicide, leaving a note saying ” I couldn’t keep feeling alone and unhappy” With enough knowledge and understanding, the beloved would have stayed home and hugged her. Cared for and availed her all the time she…
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Zumbathon for Mental Health 13th/10/2018 – Why You Should Attend
I almost threw myself in a speeding car around Kira roundabout now road lights. Why was I going to kill myself? Because I was tired of how I was feeling. The depression had taken its heavy load on me and the conversations with myself in my head were so loud, I didn’t know what was my original voice. I wanted them to stop, I wanted everything that was causing me the pain to stop. I wanted to be free from the hurting and the pain. This wasn’t the first time I was going through this deep desire to end it. This was my second time. The first time, I looked…
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Its Always The Strong Ones…
It’s always the ones people consider strong, the ones who look like they have got all their things together. I woke today to the Facebook Post of 22nd August announcing the death of a young lady poet, her death was related to depression. I followed the ‘bread crumbs’ of her story looking for details and found out she had killed herself. According to the comments on the farewell attributes, she was one available for many, very active with her editor work, very present in many people’s lives; always available. She idolizes, loved, many aspired to be like, she was motivational. It’s always the ones who are always available for and…
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#HearMyHeart: Dissociative identity disorder
…. this is a continuation of a blog I wrote last year about a mental disorder called Rage under the Uganda Blog Community (@Ugbloc) theme #HearMyHeart. She sat there and looked at me for what felt to be too long but was only 5 minutes. I think she was studying me. Checking out my reactions to her small comfy office. It was a cool small room, it felt like a box sealed into the building that housed it. It was a room cursed to listen in to many conversations and never tell. It was cursed to silence and with that, I conflicted to trust it. ‘Can we trust her?’ came…
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#ugblogweek Day5: The Difference between Sadness and Depression
Not that mental health month didn’t have enough focus on these issues, but I thought I would highlight some thing we might have missed that we all tend to confuse. Sadness is different from depression! ‘Sadness—we are all familiar with it. Taylor Swift has made a career writing songs that tap into this emotion. Yet, Taylor typically maintains a positive outlook at the end of her songs. The sadness she talks about is mostly temporary.’ Yet there is other one that I have an experience with; “Crying helps me slow down and obsess over the weight of life’s problems.” – me This is the more extreme emotion than the sadness…
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#HearMyHeart : Rage Part 1
The anger builds up and the outbursts are rampant. Even a simple 'how are you?' sets you off.
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#HearMyHeart : Depression
"People think depression is sadness, crying or dressing in black. But people are wrong. Depression is the constant feeling of being numb. You wake up in the morning just to go back to bed again."
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While I was Silent….
While I was silent…. These are the things I didn’t want to share because I was wondering how they will impact your life. I like sharing when I am impacting and not when I think there will be no lesson. But this is Blogging, we share experiences and lessons. We share what makes happy and sad. We share what we want because we can and we will. In Other News the Uganda Blogger Happy Hour is on this evening at 18pm, Yasigi Beer Bar gardens. So what was I not willing share? Things like the minor depression I got after we were robbed, and had to suffer losses plus fear…
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How to deal with Post Election Depression?
This is what happens when your candidate — the person you rooted for and rallied behind — didn't win. Its Post-election heartache, pain, and it tends to feels like it'll last forever, but it doesn’t really.
