Mental Issues – What Do You Think About The Problems Raised In This Blog

It’s essential to know the warning signs, with intention to I’m clean from drugs for 7 8 years.

While being part of the foundation I am able to manage my recovery better and throughout the past year I have become the projects advisor and service User Lead for the Ugandan Diaspora Health Foundation.

In hospital I found the nurses and doctors to be kind and helpful and I began to feel a bit relieved.

When I was discharged from hospital I started using drugs again and this was affecting the psychiatric medication that I was taking and preventing it from working properly.

I started to get a bit better. I went through a stage of going in and out of hospital for a few years being that I kept using drugs and becoming unwell again. Nevertheless, I stayed in hospital for 6 months. Severe lack of awareness and understanding often creates misperceptions about persons with mental health and substance use disorders in my community. With that said, this has made me an outspoken advocate of mental health awareness in my Ugandan community in the UK. Through the Uganda Diaspora Health Foundation, I aim to use my story to correct those misperceptions by putting a face on mental health and showing that it’s a part of all of our lives in our communities.

I’ve been affected by mental health stigma.

I was 20 years old and this was my first time in a psychiatric ward.

Using drugs became the main thing I knew to do. I started to hear voices. I’m almost sure I was given a flat to live in of my own, when I turned 19. It became quite bad and frightening for me being that I did not understand what the voices were. Now let me tell you something. I was walking in the streets shouting and crying. Besides, I was using drugs. So, my friends ok me to the local hospital. I hope that this can continue and that we can all be brave in moving forward in being open to new ways of helping one another. I have evidence already and strong hope that people’s attitudes can change wards mental illness.

I now use my personal experiences and the platform of Uganda Diaspora Health Foundation to inform people of the damage that can be caused with negative attitudes wards mental illness.

That they are able to improve how they consider that it’s very important that people living without mental illness get a better understanding of experiences like mine.

I have chosen to share my story and challenges with mental ill health to inspire others and my first name is Mohammed.

Now this was a very difficult time for me.

I remember a peer pressure to try them, I actually did not know what they’ve been.

I felt very alone in the bed and breakfast. I actually did not get my exams, By the way I managed to finish school. I was moved to a bed and breakfast, my relationship with my foster parents was not going well. When I was staying at the bed and breakfast I was still using drugs. I did not always get along well with my foster carer. In my teenage years, at school I was introduced to drugs. Basically, I started to do shoplifting to get money. My parents had passed away. I was isolated often, away from people I could relate to. I was using drugs to try and forget about the loss of my parents. During my childhood in England I went through the care system. I was born in Uganda and came to live in England when I was 9 years old. For instance, moses used to come and chat with me and I felt understood.