The question arises, how does one live one’s life when you are either physically or mentally unwell?
shares his experience of living with his bi-polar condition. He describes an early episode as a twenty year old in which he was delusional and believed he was the Messiah. He describes years of mood swings and manic episodes, reaching a crisis in 2016 when he pushed his to be wife and her mother away, smashed a glass pane with his fist and tried to leave home, naked. A veritable crisis.
He advocates,"This shouldn’t be a matter of luck. We need to make mental health care fundamentally acceptable, actually affordable and universally acceptable." But let’s go back to the beginning of my story: Joe, Zoleka, Derrick and Dineo. Research shows that people who disclose their condition, both socially and in the workplace, actually fare better in the longer run. Herman Eloff, News24 Lifestyle editor, this week wrote of his own experience, again substantiating the research. Mental unwellness seems so much more challenging than many a physical condition. There is no quick-fix aspirin. It is a longer road.
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