Remember that jam by India Arie? Yes, I hope it is playing at the back of your mind while you read this. For over 6months, I have been flexing with myself over what to write because every experience since my last post has been very…personal. Turns out that although privacy…

Often described as the disease of modernity, no one truly knows what causes depression; and if there is anything human beings loathe and revere, it is baseless circumstances. That is how alcohol and weed entered the conversation of mental illnesses. …

The short answer, I love telling stories. The long answer, I want to change the face of mental health in Uganda and Africa at large. When I had my first encounter with depression, there was no applicable solution on the internet; everything I came across did not align with my…

I love telling stories. As far back as primary boarding school, I would guise myself as a prefect and go to lower classes during Saturday night prep to tell stories. I do not know if pretending to be a prefect helped my case, but I recall how attentively my audience…

When things got ugly in my final year (2019), my close friends dragged me to seek help. My roommate lived in constant fear of my next outburst. I hated it. So I took the walk (yes, Makerere is mostly about walking) and met Dr. Nsubuga. He was nice, calm and…

It is 2hrs past my bedtime but this thought will not let me rest. Picture this, you are going on a 5day trip and need only one bag of clothes to comfortably enjoy your time away. …

Chances are, for every time you have felt low, money was one of the major contributing factors. The gutting failure to make more, or the redundant regret that comes after spending aimlessly. …

It has been 11years since my life drastically changed for the worst. I still vividly remember 28th September, 2011; a school day like any other except, I would later have a stroke that left me paralyzed, uneducated and ordinary for over a decade! Accounts was the first class of the…

Please find attached this disclaimer that I wrote a while ago when someone believed my continued mental health activism is because I won’t let the trauma go. Thanks With the confusion out of the way, I would like to add that talking about it helps. Yes — the cliches work…