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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry 1mo

MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS
Most people like you and me with kindred minds do not take this problem with a lot of seriousness in our community until it happens to me or its too late. In our societies,most of us see it a a curse or a bad omen especially when one commits suicide. The deceased doesn’t not even get to be buried in their rightful place; be it where she got married or her birthplace... because it is known to bring a curse to that family but how many families do they go back and wonder what really caused this in the first place and take action?
When we asunder apart either in any of situations in life or between blood lines,it gives us an inward pain that no one talks about or wants to share is the main cause of mental health. That sympathizing tear that you give to the family of the deceased or the sick,as a human,one should ask oneself how are you changing or impacting on people’s lives. Do you see the other person whom you are causing indirectly or directly depression or anxiety or any other disorder as someone’s daughter or son and to top it all that person was created by God as His own image?
When one starts to show signs of any disorders of mental illness usually that person undergoes some toil of pain that brings a slow disconnection to the real life. One starts to skips meals in the sense of cutting weight yet the person is stressed. One can also start to loose sleep,watching movies until midnight and sleeps for 3hours,not working out in the name of ‘I do very hard handy job’ such as working at the shamba. What happens next is taking sleeping pills or buying appetite drugs or start truanting your place of work or even in school. This person is struggling inside out to find help but doesn’t shout for it but the signs already tells us. Depression is the cancer of the mind that kills softly with notice but refuse to shout to see it.
Before our Father’s throne,usually we pour our ardent prayers,our fears,our hopes,our aims are usually one but in different words and language,our soreness and our cares but we forget to be human for just one second or minute when we meet someone with such and cease to care. We can even take a whole hour speaking to Our Father in heaven but we can’t give even a second to the one who needs as by that time.
We as humans in expectation lives and longs to see that day from sorrow,drudgery and pain to perfect imperfection love and friendship reigning through all eternity need to start shouting of the inward pain and to start to love the neighbor as thy self by going an extra mile to scream for that person help before its too late and that's what I call a sympathizing tear. If you are either a boss one way or another or a leader even in our homes,needs to be each others keeper in this world. I do not need to know you or where you come from in order to help you or love you from afar because at the end of it all,we will go back to the ONE and ONLY who loved us first even before our births. Remember we need to rule over our inward pains and emotions whom its medicine is time. A calm mind can handle any situation. more
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  • john lemeri

    2w

    Indeed our society and believes has for long under looked the acts of suicide attempts. They too quick to judge and condemn the victim. Drivers of... suicidal acts are a reality threat of life.

    There are reasonable facts behinds every silent actions and a bitter one for that matter.      more

  • henry kibunja

    1mo

    very good education on mental health .

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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry

 1y

As the newer Board of Counselors and Psychologists establishes itself in Kenya, I look forward to seeing the certification and official licensing of different specialties of therapists and psychologists.

Did you know that there are areas of specialties? Some therapists in the US are licensed Marriage and Family Therapists, others are Play Therapy or Theraplay therapists, and yet, there are even... Sex Therapists! I look forward to being a fully licensed Mental Health Counselor/Therapist over the next couple of years.

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  • Mary Lopez

    1mo

    You will become a giant in the field if you continue to push to see things happen! Expect Trauma Therapists to become prevalent due to the need,... morphing into 1st responders for catastrophic events and natural disasters.  more

Immaculate Kendi
Mental Health: Topics and the Industry 1mo

l am very passionate about mental health. l an seeking to connect with someone that can mentir me on the same
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  • Igbosofulu katherine

    1mo

    I am very passionate about mental health and will like to learn more
    I have done a diploma course on Dementia

  • Roghat Razaly

    1mo

    Welcome to Akili Platform Tanzania 0626 551 859 WhatsApp

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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry

 1y

I can't speak about workspaces from a long-term perspective as a young professional, but I have been hearing more people talking about burnout, self-care, and hustle culture as part of orientation trainings and workplace health and ongoing well-being. This is a good thing, but it also makes me wonder if the need has become norm because workplace culture, for so long, believed that hustling was the... only way to work "successfully".

Do you find it hard to rest and do non-work related activities for fun, connection, and pure personal pleasure? Why do you think that is, for you, or society in general? Is the Kenyan context pro-hustle to begin with? more
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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry

 1y

What Factors Do We Look at When Talking about Health and Wellness? 🤔

This varies based on the therapist's orientation (theory practiced) and their personal style and practice. Some may use the Dimensions of Wellness- which also vary based on the organization talking! Others use the Social Determinants of Health. I'll be talking through the lens of the latter today, which is beloved by social... workers and many public health professionals!

The Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) are as follows: Economic Stability, Education Access and Quality, Health Care Access and Quality, Neighborhood and Built Environment, and Social and Community Context. Each of these affect an individual's health outcomes and society's health disparities. I will go on record to say that the impacts also show in their mental health status!

Further Break-Down of the elements of SDOH below:
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Economic Stability: Employment, Food Insecurity, Housing Instability, Poverty

Education Access and Quality: Early Childhood Development and Education, Enrollment in Higher Education, High School/Secondary School Graduation, Language and Literacy

Health Care Access and Quality: Access to Health Services, Access to Primary Care, Health Literacy

Neighborhood and Built Environment: Access to Foods That Support Healthy Dietary Patterns, Crime and Violence, Environmental Conditions, Quality of Housing

Social and Community Context: Civic Participation, Discrimination, Incarceration, Social Cohesion


Have you heard about the SDOH before? What about the Dimensions of Wellness? Is there anything not mentioned here that you think should be, because it impacts health and well-being? more
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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry

 1y

A motivational word for you today:

"Hold the vision, trust the process".

- Unknown

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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry

 1y

A thought for this week for you:

"For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together".

- Vincent van Gogh
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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry

 1y

Wishing everyone a great World Poetry Day!

And if you're not as inclined towards the arts as I am, Happy International Day of Forests to you as well!

🌲✍❤
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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry

 1y

Access to Mental Health Services is not always...ideal.

I won't lie. There are various barriers to check through, and depending on your intersectional identity, these barriers may become walls or mountains to trek through. Waymakers are always welcome for marginalized groups and identities as systems continue to mature towards the ideal!

Some of the barriers to mental health services... include:
-Cost
-Insurance accepted
-Language barriers (spoken, signed, etc.)
-Physical barriers (wheelchair access, large and small bodied persons, a comfortable space for the neurodiverse, etc.)
-Therapist (specializations, cultural competence, licensure, etc.)
-Distance and limited options in the area
-Limited modes available (in-person, telehealth, both, home-based, in community agencies like hospitals, etc.)
-Stigma
-Logistics (not having a car, being a minor and needing caregiver's consent, not having fare, etc.)
-Therapeutic trauma (with past service provider(s))
-and, sadly, more.

Nonetheless, continue to learn about your wants, needs, areas of growth, and the skills to start learning for practice, so you can self-advocate in the mental health space for accessibility and access to the therapy you deserve.

Here's to your better future!
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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry

 11mo

Happy Passover/Pesach to all Jewish persons around the world and fellow believers!

Passover is a 7-8 day festivity with family and friends where the Hebrew people's liberation from slavery from Egypt is remembered in reading the Book of Exodus, and other text's, during the week, and in commemorating over shared meals and celebrations.

Pesach starts on the 24th in the evening until the 30th... of April at sundown.

Here's to learning more about other faiths and their development and changes over the decades. Here's to a prosperous Spiritual Health and Wellness, individually, and within our respective communities! more
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