Sitawa Wafula: Why I speak up about living with epilepsy
Sitawa Wafula: De ce vorbesc despre cum e să trăiești cu epilepsie
Sitawa Wafula started Kenya's first free mental health and epilepsy support line. Full bio
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butterflies in my stomach
despre fluturi în stomac
sweet words spoken
despre cuvinte de alint
întrebându-mă constant:
and hugging each other.
the spoon in my mouth.
I just pointed at my mouth.
am arătat cu mână la gura mea.
the chattering stopped.
and she told me --
dar ea mi-a spus --
to the dormitories to sleep.
și să mă odihnesc.
of high school,
my end of high school exams
of exams we call here in Kenya "mocks,"
numite „simulări” aici în Kenya,
how prepared one is for the final exams.
de pregătit pentru examenele finale.
against British colonial rule.
împotriva dominației britanice.
imaginary papers.
concentrating on their reading
everybody was looking at us,
and official introduction,
has been a 15-year-long affair.
unei aventuri de 15 ani.
for most types of epilepsy,
a celor mai multe tipuri de epilepsie
needs to be assessed by a doctor
trebuie evaluată de un doctor
that I had epilepsy.
s-a confirmat că aveam epilepsie.
in hospital and at home,
la spital și acasă
doar pentru examenele finale.
science degree
in my second year.
îndeajuns de bune
when I had a seizure in the workplace.
când am avut o criză la locul de muncă.
of the things that had happened,
din cauza lucrurilor care s-au întâmplat,
and being fired from my job.
I had heard about epilepsy
pe care le-am auzit despre epilepsie
care trăiesc cu epilepsie:
to be delivered from.
de care trebuiau eliberați.
about these things,
la lucrurile astea,
would still be twitching.
didn't have answers
nu aveau răspunsuri
and my bad days and my really ugly days,
și zilele rele și zilele foarte urâte
by people who had epilepsy
de oameni care aveau epilepsie
have the diagnosis.
who constantly asked why me
care se întreba mereu „de ce eu”
to find their voices.
care încă nu și-au găsit vocea.
from two to three times a day,
de la două-trei pe zi
times in one year.
and epilepsy support line.
despre aventura mea,
could never be able to do.
nu le-ar putea face niciodată.
as big as 80 percent of Nairobi
of stigma and exclusion.
have the diagnosis
a constant reminder
with people like us,
cu persoane ca noi,
the walls of stigma and exclusion,
zidurile stigmei și excluderii,
life throws at us.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sitawa Wafula - Mental health advocateSitawa Wafula started Kenya's first free mental health and epilepsy support line.
Why you should listen
Sitawa Wafula is a blogger and nomadic mental health crusader. She's using her personal journey as a rape survivor living with a dual diagnosis of epilepsy and bipolar disorder to provide people in Africa with information and support to handle mental health conditions and deal with everyday life.
Wafula is also an Aspen New Voices Fellow with the Aspen Institute, USA and a non-communicable disease champion under the Ministry of Health in her home country, Kenya.
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