humphrey abwao
Mental Health: Topics and the Industry 1w

am working on a memtal health project and am looking for thsie interested to join me 🙏
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Mental Health: Topics and the Industry 2mo

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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  • Giancarlo Giancarlo

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    Complimenti per la analisi

  • john lemeri

    1mo

    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

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Immaculate Kendi
Mental Health: Topics and the Industry 2mo

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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  • Ivan Mulekwa

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    Cant we form a platform on different social media platforms n create awareness about Mental Health and still learn more about it

  • Igbosofulu katherine

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

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Anne Karimi
Mental Health: Topics and the Industry 3mo

Hello everyone,

I’m excited to join this vibrant community focused on mental health! My work involves digitizing mental health curricula, and I’ve had the privilege of working on projects like the mental health training for Kenyan Community Health Workers.

By leveraging digital tools, we aim to make mental health education more accessible and engaging, especially for underserved... communities. I’d love to learn from your experiences and insights and share ideas on how technology can enhance mental health awareness and intervention.

Looking forward to connecting and collaborating with you all! 😊 more
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  • George Obara

    2mo

    hi my followers sorry for not have heard from me for a while, i'm fine and sound. To the academia colleagues please kindly keep posting your comments... so that we keep the fir of accadmia burning. Thanks in advance. more

  • SAIDI NSAMBA

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    2mo

    How I wish I could learn from you how you are doing it! I would like to develop one for school leaders in Uganda

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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.

:) more
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  • Mary Lopez

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    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

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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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