We sat down with one of our loves and spoke about the effect that mental health can have on your sex life. From the need to speak about it to the fact that sometimes a manic episode can show its self in risky sexual behavior, this podcast got emotional, it was sometimes a lot, but […]
By Thabile Depression affects all aspects of one’s life and this includes the sexuals, namely our sex lives and all that come with them. We hardly ever talk about how mental illness affects our sex lives, especially when we are in relationships. For those of us who are in relationships whilst having a mental illness, […]
By Ruth Achieng The internet is slow today and I’m at work. I’m thinking about her, I’ve been thinking about her. We didn’t talk last night, I think it’s the first time ever that’s happened. Normally, I would fuss about it but I’m too tired. The past few days have been tough… depression symptoms here […]
By anonymous Trigger Warning: Suicide My heart is beating fast. My palms are sweating. I sit down and take deep breaths. I can’t really think. Well, except for one thing. I can’t even say it out loud. To be honest I’m scared. I’m unable to talk yet I want people to see the turmoil wrecking […]
By Lindiwe Dhlamini I need peace! More than anything in the world I just need peace and there is only one way to get it. As I grow up I realise that life deals us a bad set of cards every now and then and they differ depending on our lived experiences and the intersections […]
Trigger warning: Suicide, drug use By Hope Kathy My shrink believes am suicidal. He asked for my poison in today’s session. And asked me to write a poem bout it. My poison is human: I call her J, my Jazz, my Jezebel. Licentious, overpowering with her seduction and caress. She calls me her Delilah;Delicate and Dainty, […]
By Nomaliqhwa/ @nomalili They changed my medication and I’m really happy about that because it’s important that I feel that my medication is helping. It is important that I place a certain amount of faith in my medication working. That it works out. So I feel good today. Really good. And I realise that the reason […]
By Nomaliqhwa/ @nomalili I’m here again in the space. A space I don’t want to be in and yet has somewhat become me. I’m depressed. Not the ‘I’m copping and I’m fine and I will be okay’ kind of depressed but more the ‘I hardly eat or sleep or talk and I swear at my parents […]
By Nomaliqhwa/ @nomalili To read part I click here Trigger warning: suicide, sexual assault. My mother was and remains a person. A soft kind person, hardened by this process of watching her children grow into (not so well adjusted) adults despite the hardship she had to endure playing the role of “evil mother”. Surely her effort […]
By Nomaliqhwa/ @nomalili I think that I was taught to dislike my mother at a very young age and without question I accepted it. I would compete with my mother for my father and my brother’s attention, to be the ‘female voice of reason’ in the house. Because she would travel and work until late hours […]
