Sitawa Wafula: Why I speak up about living with epilepsy
Sitawa Wafula: Epilepsiyle birlikte yaşama hakkında sesimi duyurmak istememin nedeni
Sitawa Wafula started Kenya's first free mental health and epilepsy support line. Full bio
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butterflies in my stomach
sweet words spoken
geçirdiğim günlerin neticesi:
and hugging each other.
ve birbirimize sarılıyorduk.
the spoon in my mouth.
I just pointed at my mouth.
the chattering stopped.
and she told me --
to the dormitories to sleep.
söyledi -- hayır, ısrar etti.
of high school,
birkaç ay sonra ve
my end of high school exams
hazırlandığını ölçen
of exams we call here in Kenya "mocks,"
sınavlardan birkaç gün sonra
how prepared one is for the final exams.
against British colonial rule.
kurallarına karşı salan Kirigiama kadını.
imaginary papers.
işaretliyorum gibiydi.
concentrating on their reading
dikkatleri dağıldı
everybody was looking at us,
kesinleştiği zaman,
and official introduction,
has been a 15-year-long affair.
nöbetimi geçirdim.
for most types of epilepsy,
kendine has niteliktir
needs to be assessed by a doctor
belirlenmesi için
incelemesi gerekir.
that I had epilepsy.
olduğum teşhis edilmişti.
in hospital and at home,
evde geçirdim
okula geri gittim.
science degree
in my second year.
bırakmak zorunda kaldım.
when I had a seizure in the workplace.
sonra işten kovuldum.
of the things that had happened,
and being fired from my job.
atılmamdan dolayıydı.
I had heard about epilepsy
to be delivered from.
dışlandıklarını duydum.
about these things,
daha fazla düşündükçe,
would still be twitching.
didn't have answers
benim sorularıma
and my bad days and my really ugly days,
berbat günlerim hakkında yazdım
by people who had epilepsy
have the diagnosis.
who constantly asked why me
to find their voices.
soran kızdan uzaklaştım.
from two to three times a day,
Günde iki veya üç kere oluyordu,
times in one year.
üç kere olmaya başlamıştı.
destek hattına başladığımda
and epilepsy support line.
could never be able to do.
anlatmak için dolaştım.
as big as 80 percent of Nairobi
of stigma and exclusion.
duygulardan geçiyorlar.
utanç verici ve dışlanma gibi
have the diagnosis
a constant reminder
with people like us,
the walls of stigma and exclusion,
her şeyi karşılayabileceğimizi
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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