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…
Living with anxiety feels a lot like living on the run—except you’re running away from your own life. The things adulthood teaches us! Anyway, while you run from your life panic settles in your chest as you try desperately to escape to a safe place that seems just out of reach. Worries swirl around in…
Over the years dealing with my mental instabilities I have learned to self evaluate and diagnose before heading/calling my therapist. Therapy is expensive so knowing some of the issues you are facing helps reduce the hours you are to spend in the chair. One of the things that I struggle with is dealing with disappointment.…
Last week on Thursday one of my 3,000 friends on Facebook killed himself. He was young. He was an achiever at his workplace. He was in love. He was suffering from depression. He had been depressed for some time as per the information that came through on Facebook from those who were close to him.…
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…
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…
“I almost killed myself, yesterday”- she sent a chat to my WhatsApp and then went offline. Phones off. The closest person to her – the husband – is the abuser. What kind of abuse you might be wondering, it is Emotional Abuse. Pause. When you think you have it worse, just know other…
“Nothing we can say or believe regarding matter is immortal, for matter is temporal and is, therefore, a mortal phenomenon, a human concept, sometimes beautiful, always erroneous.” — Mary Baker Edd. July is my birth month, and how grateful I am for this far the Lord has brought me since 1986. Yes, I am a Museveni baby…
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,…
The anger builds up and the outbursts are rampant. Even a simple ‘how are you?’ sets you off.
“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.”
We wear the smiles so well. Our eyes are dipped in water to keep them bright. We the strong ones need to keep up a good front. I am torn inside and breaking. But the faces we wear to show that we are fine, that we are Okay are many. We wear the pride of…