…rage is not a symptom that everyone with bipolar experiences, but it is not uncommon either…
DISLCOSURE
…You reserve the right to withhold or disclose this information and it’s up to you whether or not you want to share this information about your health…
DEMYSTIYING THE MYTH III
…when your recruit opens up about the mental illness they are living with, keep it within the relevant offices to avoid victimization and harmful behaviour such as negative comments about mental illness, even as a joke. People with lived experiences of mental conditions need compassion, understanding and empathy, not sympathy…
DEMYSTIFYING THE MYTH II
…while certain illnesses may complicate the fulfilment of a task, it does not impede the overall completion of said task. So, viewing mentally ill people as volatile or dangerous unfairly characterises them as incompetent which they aren’t…
DEMYSTIFYING THE MYTH
..having special needs doesn’t make one a liability, in fact, should provision be made to meet these needs, employers could be sitting on an asset goldmine.
8. BURDEN BEARING: Christ, the ultimate Burden Bearer
” Come to me all you who are weary and burdened and I will give you rest…”
7. Burden bearing-for caregivers
“There are only four kinds of people in the world. Those who have been caregivers. Those who are currently caregivers. Those who will be caregivers, and those who will need a caregivers.”
-Rosalyn Carter
6. I’M JUST A VESSEL
I too, am just a vessel, that is hurting, broken and in despair and every once in a while I see a dark cloud descending upon me and that is something I cannot deny. Every time I feel like ending my life I choose to channel the healing from God in the best way I know how with the help of my community.
5. NEMO RESIDEO
In my mother tongue, virongo means circumcision friends. One of the things we’re taught after initiation is to never leave your circumcision friends behind. This also happens to be a code that the USA elite army rangers live by. Nemo resideo is a Latin concept meaning leave no one behind.
4. BURDEN BEARING – For persons with Lived Experience of Mental Illnesses
“The mind can descend far lower than the body, for in it there are bottomless pits. The flesh can bear only a certain number of wounds and no more, but the soul can bleed in ten thousand ways, and die over and over again each hour.” Charles .H. Spurgeon
