Why is mental health often misunderstood?
Noella has lived with bipolar disorder for six years. Now she’s calling for more understanding.
Today’s guest on Africa Daily is a young woman who seemed to have it all.
Noella got a job as a reporter with a local TV station in Nairobi – and then, around six years ago, she got a scholarship to study filmmaking in the US.
But then she had her first manic episode and woke up in a psychiatric ward in North Carolina.
She was told she had unspecified bipolar – but didn’t understand what it meant and how it would change her life.
Now she’s made a film for ±«Óãtv Africa Eye called ‘What is Eating My Mind’ to try and help others in a similar situation.
She spoke to Mpho Lakaje about her experiences.
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