I don't think this is the right section to post this but permit me admin.

I pretty much want to talk about the menace of mental health problems in our African homes, schools, and culture so you can just leave this page if it's not something of your interest. But I am sure you want regret reading through it.

Am going to be sharing my experiences with mental health problems since I was a kid and how you as someone who is struggling can help yourself or help those around you in the best possible way you can.

I was diagnosed with two very common mental health problems but I didn't know I had the second one until recently when I was close to taking my own life.

First was severe social anxiety disorder back in my first to last year in the university. In the university where one is supposed to be very social I was the type that would skip class and miss marks just to avoid social interactions.

Long story short It was so bad that my grades went from average to really bad. My mates could easily pick on me because they knew I could hardly retaliate. Suicidal thoughts and depression became the order of the day in my life.

I dropped out during my third year and my parents were pissed, I could explain anything to anyone so I just told my parents it was bad grades and I don't want to keep wasting their money.


I thought I dropped out because of the social anxiety struggles affecting my studies but the dots connected themselves only recently when I was diagnosed with ADD.

For those who don't know, it's attention deficit disorder. There is also the hyperactive type but am not really much hyperactive.

I got rid of my social anxiety struggles after much therapy ( but no drugs, because I couldn't afford them). The withdrawal effects are also bad so I just had to skip the drugs part.

I decided to go into business, and then into freelancing, and then back to into business too many interests in my brain. Yeah really confused!

I was struggling with everything I placed my hands on after school because i couldn't focus on something for long. Once I loose interest on something It's a no go area for me again.

I remember back then in school I would only study for an exam a night before the exam. Not because I was unserious but because I could only get myself to focus because of the pressure of taking the exams the next day.

There is no way you can read for an exam in a day and ace it, even if you are a genius.

I don't want to bore you with my long epistle, but where am heading to is that the issue of mental health issues in our African homes is something of great concern.

When a child has some form of mental health issue in Africa, they either cover it up with spirituality or say the child is immature. What if it's an adult?

I managed to get rid of my social anxiety struggles without drugs but by constant therapy. ADD is a whole new diagnosis and it has changed the course of my life. but you know what they say "we are never given anything we can't handle".

Am leaving room for people to also share their mental health struggles and how well they were able to or are still managing it.

Am also planning on organizing a group on Watsapp or telegram where we can share tips on how to help one another and those around us with our experiences and how we overcame.

Story was a bit long so I had to cut it short. Am not an English professor so make una no mind my possible mistakes.

P.S: I'll open a group once I see interested persons drop their contacts (at least 10).

We all have a duty to help one another.

Interesting thread, but you have not mentioned if you have treated yourself and recovered totally. Your write up is okay, and dosen't reflect someone who has any learning challenges. It's not too late to go back to school if you wish.

LilMissFavvy:
Interesting thread, but you have not mentioned if you have treated yourself and recovered totally. Your write up is okay, and dosen't reflect someone who has any learning challenges. It's not too late to go back to school if you wish.

It's not something you totally free yourself from. And I also stated that I was just recently diagnosed of the ADD.

As for school, it's not something am interested in. The stuff is just affecting my career pursuit. I can't seem to focus on something.

One minute am there, the next day am somewhere else. I thought it was multiplicity of interest, but not until I was diagnosed.

Observer20:
I don't think this is the right section to post this but permit me admin.

I pretty much want to talk about the menace of mental health problems in our African homes, schools, and culture so you can just leave this page if it's not something of your interest. But I am sure you want regret reading through it.

Am going to be sharing my experiences with mental health problems since I was a kid and how you as someone who is struggling can help yourself or help those around you in the best possible way you can.

I was diagnosed with two very common mental health problems but I didn't know I had the second one until recently when I was close to taking my own life.

First was severe social anxiety disorder back in my first to last year in the university. In the university where one is supposed to be very social I was the type that would skip class and miss marks just to avoid social interactions.

Long story short It was so bad that my grades went from average to really bad. My mates could easily pick on me because they knew I could hardly retaliate. Suicidal thoughts and depression became the order of the day in my life.

I dropped out during my third year and my parents were pissed, I could explain anything to anyone so I just told my parents it was bad grades and I don't want to keep wasting their money.


I thought I dropped out because of the social anxiety struggles affecting my studies but the dots connected themselves only recently when I was diagnosed with ADD.

For those who don't know, it's attention deficit disorder. There is also the hyperactive type but am not really much hyperactive.

I got rid of my social anxiety struggles after much therapy ( but no drugs, because I couldn't afford them). The withdrawal effects are also bad so I just had to skip the drugs part.

I decided to go into business, and then into freelancing, and then back to into business too many interests in my brain. Yeah really confused!

I was struggling with everything I placed my hands on after school because i couldn't focus on something for long. Once I loose interest on something It's a no go area for me again.

I remember back then in school I would only study for an exam a night before the exam. Not because I was unserious but because I could only get myself to focus because of the pressure of taking the exams the next day.

There is no way you can read for an exam in a day and ace it, even if you are a genius.

I don't want to bore you with my long epistle, but where am heading to is that the issue of mental health issues in our African homes is something of great concern.

When a child has some form of mental health issue in Africa, they either cover it up with spirituality or say the child is immature. What if it's an adult?

I managed to get rid of my social anxiety struggles without drugs but by constant therapy. ADD is a whole new diagnosis and it has changed the course of my life. but you know what they say "we are never given anything we can't handle".

Am leaving room for people to also share their mental health struggles and how well they were able to or are still managing it.

Am also planning on organizing a group on Watsapp or telegram where we can share tips on how to help one another and those around us with our experiences and how we overcame.

Story was a bit long so I had to cut it short. Am not an English professor so make una no mind my possible mistakes.

P.S: I'll open a group once I see interested persons drop their contacts (at least 10).

We all have a duty to help one another.

Interested

portplus:


Interested

Great.
I'll create the group once interested persons have topped 10.

Thanks for taking this step my friend.

Alright.

Observer20:


It's not something you totally free yourself from. And I also stated that I was just recently diagnosed of the ADD.

As for school, it's not something am interested in. The stuff is just affecting my career pursuit. I can't seem to focus on something.

One minute am there, the next day am somewhere else. I thought it was multiplicity of interest, but not until I was diagnosed.