it luck and do e fuels have a worse energy balance? read in 60 minutes on d w. ah, what people have to say to us ah, that's why we listen stories reporter every weekend on d w. hi there. this is the 77 percent the show made for you african youth. i am mike lety. welcome. ah. so one day you are feeling happy, but a next your feeling doubt or do you have friends who are struggling to show up at social events, depression,

anxiety as well as adam mental health issues are on the rise in africa. so i thought to be, we'll talk about that coming up. we'll hear stories of young people who are trying to overcome mental health problems. will go to the stress of the zombie up to find out why people dealing with mental health problems. don't get a healthy need and i'll introduce you to a south african who uses up the conferences for martha passes. to begin to this program, i'll take you to wonder. one in 6 people in the central for condition is depressed . in 1994, the country went through a conflict and 10 a site that led to the death of so many order wonder has moved on from that back time on the southeast at least many still suffer with post traumatic stress disorder or p t s t that is why for my beauty, queen amanda calissa,

set up who mecca an organization that reminds people to take it easy and breeze blew. it felt like a weight just like the water underneath there and its own weight over you. you feel physically exhausted. you feel scared and that to me describes a mental health issues such as depression, anxiety. you feel like you're in the deep end and you're always wondering, will i ever get out labor able to breathe again. my name's amanda ac elisa, i'm currently the president of an n g o. it's called who mikko, which means breeze. the reason i came in with the idea of who mikko was because i started to see my own friends dealing the things i dealt with and not having the,

the sort of motivation to go seek help. and that's because of lack of education. that's because it was heavily stigmatized. i wonder how he's doing? good. so my name is amanda calissa and i am the president of omega organization. after i graduated from high school, right, i started to struggle with my mental health is our to decline overtime. and it went to a place where i would suffer getting out of bed. i would suffer going to brush my teeth. ah. and i didn't have a reason why i couldn't explain it, but i'm lucky because i hide the space to seek help. but there's so many people who don't have that right there. so it was suffering and they don't even they don't

have the space. they don't have the money. they don't have the time. the parents are not listening, right? and so that's what, who mc as about. so we're going to start with the 1st activity. look at yourself in that mirror. and remember a time when you were young, when you were in high school and how that felt like. so he said, okay, want to put a space where public school students can be able to access mental health care for free. we also noticed that a lot of therapists didn't have interpersonal skills. we're going to give university students the ability to come in and have internships, you know, have interpersonal skills. part of what's helping me heal is also helping other people. oh, i don't even

listen. the thing about mental health is that it is important also for your overall physical well being. and if you don't take care of your mental health, it could increase your risk of ada fiscal problems like diabetes and heart disease . and i'd be the 1st one met by the cove at 19 pandemic was a very stressful time. for many people. it is no surprise that mental health problems increased because naturally, many were worried about the future of their jobs and the people that they love. and that is where pamela sil, wanna found herself in june 2020. but to day the south african is getting help. let's check out how she monies to turn the situation around. for pamela, so ana, it's a day like any other the community activist and her mother, a dish out food to people and a globally to neighborhood near cape town,

helping others is her motivation. give us any she because we feel like we give back to the community, but it's also just dangerous because of resources. but we keep on going because there's no other way. pamela gets things done. but behind a strong facade, the 37 year old has struggled. in mid 2020, she experienced a mental health breakdown. pamela clearly remembers the day i knew to leak up and everything just faults different. my mind felt like it was scrambled. and every time i wanted to wake up, i know it was just so difficult. um, eventually i did wake up, but my hands with them and, and every time i needed to think my mind just went blank and blank and was low key . i needed to see a doctor, a doctor diagnosed pamela with depression,

but she's far from alone. more than a quarter of south african suffer from probable depression. in fact, health officials have sat, the country is mired in a deep mental health crisis. what traumatized society, you know, people complain that politicians to blame so much on a politics. but if you think about it, the structural barriers put in place by a potted or still very much in reality. and the trauma continues. the severe burden of, of stresses in our country for pamela employment, struggles, childhood trauma, and battling to provide for her 4 children, took its toll, but depression has another dark side. not everyone recognizes it as an illness. even pamela's mother had difficulties excepting her diagnosis. i think it's the if the lack of knowledge it would be like which craft, if people are like they, the big rel reached even now people this why they believe, even while it may be tempting to dismiss traditional belief systems doing so,

it's mostly counter productive, says professor si baker. the main thing they is to not dismiss those belief systems, it's actually essential to listen. and then generally when people feel listen to, they're more likely to engage with an alternative perspective. once every level you've actually paid attention to me. through her activist network, pamela met, therapist, debbie silver after receiving counseling. pamela took a course which has helped her assist others. ready a more away way help can be found, you know, and if sometimes it help is not found was in my community than i can organize with transport for the prison to actually go get help. since her diagnosis over 2 years ago, pamela has come a long way. ready depression doesn't actually necessarily lose you. i don't know whose concept depiction any she never hes heavy again. but i think because of

the people that out i've been exposed to and the people that i can talk to, i am not in the dark hole, but i mean a journey. and i now know that my healing journey doesn't have an expiry date. the thing about depression is that it drives in silence and looking at his stories of pamela and amanda, they found yeah, healing through helping other people. and that is certainly a point to not zambia passed a mental health law in 2019, but its implementation still remains patching. and this reese st. beat, the 77 percent for 2 molars. she has to soccer to find out why despite the law, mental health patients, dont really get a help in need. and

diety, depression, bipolar disorder, mental health issues like these are seen as taboo topics in many african societies with limited access to medical health go services. young africans to struggling with their mental health are left to their own devices. the d. w. 77 percent is in zambia. precisely lusaka to look at this silent epidemic, sog or salad appear. me, of course, talk to the people at the heart of its advocacy, and i'm going to start off with here. mr. benjamin who has 10 years experience, of course, are talking about mental health. was the 4 just give us an overview of the mental health situation here in zambia. we have most of our services highly centralized in osaka. ah, driver number um is trish ones that are also providing ah, like telephone counseling. just to make sure that access to mental health services is made available, accessible and affordable if into those one, not within the 2nd. oh, let me just come to i am at am i here tell us what has been your focus in the past . and people have stuck to these misconceptions about mental health. that mental

illness is a curse or, you know, it's demon possession. saw my focus has been to debunk those myths and make people realize that mental illness is something that can attack any one. and we have duncan here who yourself has experienced us live and talk to us about your experience with mental health. how was that phase of your life? like i became suicide by the age of 10? and at the age of 16, i studied attempting suicide. i add to my add to my group, dick somewhere at the age of 6, which i, i developed souls on my lips. you know, sometimes when i, when, if i go to school at home, my friends would laugh at me that because power in blood would even come out of my leaps. so i, i received a rejection from there and coming from a broken home as well. so i felt i had low self esteem, so i sat down and i thought, what's the or in the future in dial?

we just there were things where because ah, we struggled so much in the family when mom and dad are separated. ah, we went through so much fine, i showed the so the else nor any form of hope for me. what about the family, your images surround in? so i should or the science of so site to my family, the people that i was leaving with. but nobody could be able to recognize my mental state. i also could talk much about death and write more so much about die, not be the only solution the only way out. so i showed all those signs. sometimes our took to may be spiritual people, but they told me it's pre about it. so i felt less understood and i felt the only way out is just to end my life. i mean, you talked about am seeking for spiritual help as well. duncan, let me just come to our doctor francisco here. tell us how is the situation of

medical access when it comes to treatment services? mental health is a health presentation like any other health presentation. thus, if an individual feels like they've got any mental health issue or conditions or problem, they should go to the nearest mental health center, but is mental health really embedded in your primary health care system? this is what the question is. i think this is something that we're constantly investing in, and i believe this is not something that is unique to them. yeah. it's actually a global issue, but i, you know, excuse in the, you know, that in here because, well, i had to move slow answer a major area that was thought it is with primary healthcare is awareness, incest ation. i'll go back to that, i'll come back to what exactly you are doing, moving forward, but for now, which established that there is a problem is i spoke about that briefly at least. introduce yourself. yeah, i'm here bro. much in the army. so coaching nice. what we want to send to the would be and what we want to achieve as africa, as xander,

is that we want men to her to be if her taste do be prioritized. so right now it is not a priority so much or say to yeah, but let me just come back to dr. francisco, he, i'll come back to you that he said it is not a priority for this country mental health. i will beg to differ if you compare it maybe to other conditions like h i v t b a which are well funded and we have many partners finding that we so it'll make an a field of medicine like mental health, which doesn't have many partners look like it's been neglected to help come back to that later because i am still trying to understand if it's that it's really been prioritized. and i'm going to come to you duncan here. would you say it has really been prioritized i struggled with depression and anxiety for 12 years. i was a young person in school. i never by then. i don't know, but then i never saw anything about mental health on tv. if doctor you're seeing that it's been given that attention and but then why is it like that?

because i feel if i had people that came to my school to talk about mental health out of definitely not what i'm struggling with. and out of reached out and seek for hill. okay. as an active is the also have a platform, right. how do you center ah, the communication around mental health. okay, so on my radio podcast i, i usually include professionals and also people with lived experience. and also apart from that we go to schools and communities to also talk about mental health. please allow me to, um, contribute to the question that you had asked dr. lawyer on with a dental it is a parity. i don't agree there's a lot of stigma you'll find that i go in there with a mental health problem and the doctor is actually going to taunt me and laugh at me. and there's also no protection. the police also, you know, make fun of people with mental health issues. and would you report that to nobody takes that seriously. so definitely slippery through the 2019 mental health act has been passed. right. which means it's now into law. so i mean,

it also has to cater for a protection. non discrimination of people are struggling with mental health. but is this a progressive attempt on the side of the government looking at where you've come from the or the last that you hot from my perspective. know? because some of the things that are in the mental health act i things such as an a mental patient should not be discriminated. and they shouldn't be caught at derogatory terms. when you go to the police station and report something, the moment you say you are a mental person, you get ridiculed the police, don't take those things seriously. it's like these laws have been passed, but they're not being implemented. i am for lack of a better word. i'm disappointed for to hear that yet devaluing the mental health act to that level. we've been uploaded for that mental health act. and that was a huge step for mental health cuz it protects it promotes but what, what, what that advocates in voice you saying is, is it really gaining flu shot in terms of the implementation aspect of it?

because if that on that and the law is still meaningless, it is dear, this mentality or st. government will sort something else along. it's a wrong attitude and me, us government is the primary duty mer, hear you. but we are helping with facilitating policy. we need to understand that we can compare mental health to other areas in health right now. it will be a mis norma on the government side. what are you doing towards the issue of mental health now going forward that the loan of training that's coming up for men's health personnel? we're doing a little supervisory and mentor re mentoring visits when it comes to mental health across the country. then in terms of since those attend awareness top on our priority as well, we're looking into that then of course, one of the important aspect that i'd like to highlight, we are calling for partners. thank you so much. i think i'm, we have heard it to aid what has just been establishes that mental health is real. mental health struggles are real and definitely exist in zambia, oswell. i know that it can be too much to do so much, especially when it's supposed to be the work of the government. but as people what

we can do as well is to be more empathetic to one another. sure, love, sure, kindness at spread smiles where you can because you never know what people are going through. this has been the 77 percent to live from zambia and to thank you so much for watching and thank you to far to as well as your wonderful panel for that conversation. if you want to watch a longer version of this debate head on to our youtube channel, and you can also find the address right here. now, lacoff funding for mental health problems is not only as ambient issue. the world health organization says that on average, governments in africa allocate only $0.50 to mental health, and that is way below that $2.00 per person that is recommended. fortunately, as we've had in that debate, there are support groups out there, so seek them out. recognizing that there's

a problem is half the battle one. so how can i tell if someone close to me is dealing with mental health problems? let's go to cause for some tips. hello and welcome back. i'm kaz. today we will be discussing the what, why and how of mental health. mental health is just as important as physical health and it's important to take care of both. what is mental health? mental health refers to a person's overall psychological well being. it includes the way you think, feel, and act in response to different situation. mental health problems appeared to be increasing and important in africa. yet there's still a great stigma. the surrounding mental health challenges. many african communities view these challenges and disturbances as caused by external factors where people know to be suffering or even be which or have evil influences. but this is not true

. problems with mental health or regular health problems like a broken arm or an invisible illness like diabetes. there are many different mental health condition and some of the most common include anxiety disorder, depression, bipolar disorder, scripted eating disorders and addiction symptoms. these conditions can range from mild to severe and they greatly impact a person dating. so how would you know when to reach out for help? if you notice, persistent feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or worthlessness, loss of interest in activities that were once enjoyable, difficulty sleeping or sleeping too much changes and appetite and wake both of self harm, suicide. if you or someone you know, is struggling with mental health, it's important to reach out for help. remember, taking care of your mental health is a continuous journey and seeking help as a sign of drink, not weakness. thank you for tuning and we oh,

this information has been helpful and informative until next time. please take care of yourself and thanks cost for those tips on this show. we have talked a lot about on site, on depression, but remember that mental health disorders come across a wide range. so if you or your friend or family member has any mental health problems, seek professional help immediately. i cannot stress that enough. sometimes poor mental health comes from pass trauma like witness in the death of a loved one or experience in domestic abuse. and in a society where people are encouraged to suck it up, the unresolved pain. hum, pests your well been sad. african artists set the mental money to do with is the most through his at let's find out how i've been making lots and cell is 5 years old. it's been a big part of my life. i don't think i would know who i am without it. so art is me

and i have art is like medicine for me. my name said 7000 aka african ginger. i'm a contemporary artist, painter, design, a illustrator, multi disciplinary artist, long known for creating almost pan african new expression, istic art style, combining, painting and st. are one time i grew up in a household where my grand was domestically abused and i witnessed that a lot as a kid because i was around her all the time. so for me, that was a very traumatic experience and growing up as a guy understanding that it's, it's a vicious cycle of unchecked mental health leading to a violent approach that sits the cycle. and i think knowing is half the battle. and

i want to be completely aware of what gender base violence is and what it's really doing, what court is it, you know, she passed away because of that. i buried it, you know, and that's what made me such an angry teenager. and that's what made me so like rebellious, like breaking stuff and angry at the world, you know, and the old i got, the more i realized that i'm feeling upset because of my own mental health plus my own childhood traumas. what may me vocalize or be aware of my trauma and pain was making art, healing his painful. it's not the easiest thing and the only way to be better is to sit with those doc for that. you don't want to have and process them. and by doing that, you actually become better and better as time progresses. so yeah, the only thing that made me become conscious of that was making, i was, i was my work so dark, let me do

a foreign analysis of myself. and then thinking deep and being like, oh this was the reason this is so dark is because this was, this is what influenced this approach. okay, cool. why did they influence this approach while that happened to me when our fix. okay. cool. makes sense. mm hm. so we're about to hit the kalashnikov gallery to check out some of my work for me to end up in the gallery manager. thank you. good is good to be back. you know, these are more extensions on my solo show that i did in february this year called why so blue, brown boy, that collection was goodness. and she, the birth of this conversation about emotion vulnerability, masculinity wanting to speak about societal norms and societal conversations

against men in men's mental health and prove and show that they always for men to deal with emotions in a natural and healthy way. as opposed to substance abuse and violence, we can express ourselves to conversation invulnerability. so these are extension of my almost vulnerable sol, for the most intimate part of myself being displayed, exhibited in been open by your struggles. it's not a weakness in its strength. and i'm glad today we had your opportunity to have this conversation. i hope that i manage to inspire you to open up if you have any challenges. and if someone close to you does open up don, ready call them. i'll call them names. instead, encourage them to seek professional help. and oh, don't forget to call and check up on your friends regularly. that's our show for this week. i leave you in the company of johnny drill on his song. how are you,

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