God, thinking of the film “A beautiful mind”, the life of John Nash
I've lived with
relapse and recovery, the hospitalization of mental illness recurring every six
months or so since my early twenties. I don't talk very much...
Finally being diagnosed with bipolar
I was finally diagnosed with bipolar mood disorder after Tara. I spent 6 months in a mental institution in Johannesburg. Mental illness stamped on...
After being diagnosed “Perhaps Schizophrenic”
Risperdal, do you know it. Zopiclone, Pax, Ativan, Lithium (yes, the drug that has brought millions to their knees, that sent me flying into...
When bad mothers happen
N obody talks about the abuse or the familiar hands that we suffered it from now that we're (my siblings and I) are...
I speak of freedom
T he divine meeting of the class system in South Africa, the failure of our curriculum, the failure for the 2016 matriculants, the...
‘Call it a difficult night’: Book Review
M ishka Hoosen is young. She is also intelligent. She is brave and she is brilliant. She is also very clever, funny and...
Gandhi and potential
Today as I write this the voice of Mahatma Gandhi is inside my head grooming me I think in ways that are imagined and...
A coming of age story
Illusions like self-esteem, self-worth, the Sigmund Freud’s ego, superego, ID, and our body image. Those images are not real. Nothing really of substance. They...
Spring: A passionate life in words
The leaves wastes dance with confidence in the air. The wind reminds me of the mysterious chill of autumn. An eloquent, articulate state of...
Coloured Trauma
I don’t remember the past. For a long time, in schools in Port Elizabeth. Swaziland and Johannesburg I was very unhappy with myself. I...