Four years after I went into recovery, I got diagnosed with a mental illness. MENTAL ILLNESS“The thing with mental illness is that you will never operate at a 100 per cent. “The first time I wrote my blog, people called to ask me whether I was serious or I was joking – mainly because of what they understand mental illness to look like and the disconnect with what I look like. The face of mental illness is someone is who is suffering, unkempt – the dregs of society. Many are so impressed with my business-lady side that when I mention the mental illness it becomes more of a curiosity – like how can you be like this and yet you are like this?

Source: Daily Nation April 20, 2018 16:30 UTC