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The peer support program I started with went well and has been taken over by our ministry of health through our national referral hospital Butabika hospital to be rolled out across the whole country. I have now concentrated on raising mental health awareness to combat stigma which I think is very, very important.
Anyone can have mental health challenges in their lifetime, and it can be very difficult. However it WILL get easier if you get help. Letting people know you are there to listen, can make a big difference
I’d like to say that faith is a catalyst to change and believing you can heal is the first step to recovery.
I want to share my recovery journey to inspire other people and show them how powerful their personal story is. There will always be struggles, but they don’t have to define you or hold you back from being someone great! :)
There is more to life than just surviving. You can overcome mental illness.
Lately in the local mental health system, the trend has been to move away from rehabilitation towards simply medicating the clients to “control symptoms,” probably because of lack of funding. About the only funding source left these days is from the pharmaceutical companies pushing their prescriptions.
