 Hi, how are you? I hope you're doing well. My name is Ndanya and welcome to S-Prembers. Today we are here on location at the Tamarind Hotel for Mental Health Summit. We are here to talk about the increasing amount of mental health cases. Majorly we're gonna be prioritizing people with disability and other special cases. So stay tuned at S-Prembers for real-time updates. Various NGOs are here to give more guidance and they just tell us about mental health. So you said I should say what my neighbors' expectations are. Which one? Whichever you choose. So I'm going to say why the immediate person who just spoke his expectations are, he wants to understand why it is actually frowned upon for men to cry or expose their feelings and it is thumbed as a weakness and I'm also very curious about that. So yeah, your name and where you're coming from. My name is Tracy Likoko, I'm from St. Paul's University. It's a lot of representation from St. Paul's. How many are from St. Paul's? I'm nine. Okay, so I can pick someone who's done from St. Paul's to say something. Good morning. Good morning. I'm Karan Jutwai from ICMili Money. My expectation is, we are mostly faced with this challenge of mental health so I'd like just to know more about mental health so that I can be able to help my friends and myself as well. Okay, great. What's the message? What's your neighbors' expectations are? Good morning. Good morning. I'm John Wakami. So my neighbor's expectation, I'm from Kwae. My neighbor's expectation is to get an outlook on mental health is to get like that psychosocial support that you need, the emotional support that you need when you face maybe depression and other issues that people face through life. Thank you. What's your neighbor's expectation? Good morning. Good morning. Whoever you spoke to. Good morning. I'm Faith Mdina from Kwae. My neighbor's expectation is to learn to learn about wider perspective of mental health. I'm Tonya from Kwae. So my neighbor, he expects to get to understand himself better because he believes when you start understanding yourself that's when you'll get to understand others and expect to learn a lot better. Okay, round of applause for her. So there's a lot of people expecting different things and that is beautiful because we're here to talk about matters mental health and for sure you will be equipped to understand mental health better. You'll be equipped to also know why men are told or maybe they don't cry. I would want to know that also. You'll get to understand how to deal with mental health issues, your personal issues and I'm sure that once we are done there'll be growth. There'll be enlightenment. We will have something to look back and say I learned when I attended Peat Stop. Yes? Great. So I want us to fast start with a word of prayer. Is that okay? Great. Can I ask a volunteer? We have a variety of people represented here. If we can have someone to start us off with a word of prayer. Just thank God for being here. Thank God for this opportunity standing here, being alive. Anyone? I can peek. Kindly. Tell us your name and where you're coming from and then pray for us. So hi everyone. My name is Ashli Akot. I'm from Saint Paul's University. So let's believe. Dear God. Yes? So still I rise. That is just me sharing an aspect but there is something, there's a theme that we have today that we are carrying with us today and it is this world is. Let me stand next to my boss lady to tell us the amazing thing that she said for this wonderful two days. This world is possible. This world is possible. Do you agree with me? And I just want you to take a minute and time to the person next to you. When you think of that theme this world is possible. What does it mean? What is possible to you? For a minute. What is possible to you? Ngobi, what is possible to you? When you think about it this world is possible. It's possible. Anyone, chef? When you say this world is possible what do you think? When you say the world is possible I mean but I can do anything that my mind thinks of I have that capability to achieve anything that my thoughts can think about. So you can achieve anything you set your mind to do. It reminds me of a quote that whatever the mind is in the heart conceives and believes you will achieve. So same concept, yes? Great. What is possible? Possible is certainly possible comes in a lot of ways I cannot prospectively say everything but possible is different to you and to me so what is possible for you what is possible for me but then again in general every single thing you put your eyes to you set your eyes to make an effort to do is possible because it's all in the mind. It's all in the mind. Everything is possible depending on how you interpret that possibility. What is possible? What is possible to you? Possible to me means obviously something that I put my mind into and once I work it out in my mind that means I can be able to achieve it. There's a lot of alluding to the mind and it's interesting because you're talking about mental health because this is where it all starts and this is where the limitations how many are. Am I right? So when you think about it and this I'm going to pose a rather difficult question what has been the most impossible thing for you to do and why? Don't overthink it. Don't overthink it. Is there anyone who's vulnerable enough to share what is that thing that you've considered impossible to do for yourself? Like I just can't do this. There's a volunteer guys. I think the aspect of weekly and the fact that I can be so emotional that I cannot control or rather the busy speak to myself the power, the energy that I can give to be able to perhaps speak to someone else from their feeling so low it's quite different from the other end because I feel like the other end somebody has to do it for me they have to speak it to me so that I get to feel the way I speak to them. So if I understand you you find it rather impossible to speak to yourself so you want someone to speak to you to affirm you. It's easier when someone affirms you than you affirming yourself. How many relate to that statement? Okay. A number of you. Okay. I do. Someone else who wants to share that thing that they find there you go. Thank you. So I think for me it's been believing in myself enough not thinking that I am enough because most of the time it's always going to be what if it mess up what if it doesn't work out the way you expected it to work out so I think for me believing in myself enough to know that I can do it. Believing in yourself enough to know that you can do it. Anyone else perhaps from this amazing area of speakers that we have anything that you considered impossible in this world that we see things are possible. Money is a bit interesting because it has to do with my life I've lived in a life where I've done plenty and I've lived in a life where I've not and one thing that's come out in everything that I've found it impossible for me to give up on my life that when I was at the top of the mountain and enjoyed it and when I've been in the bottom of the body I've always looked up to the top of the mountain and tried to figure out how to get back to the top. Wow. I like that when he was done was looking up which had he, do we ever do? In fact many of us when we were down we beat ourselves even more. So that was just to show you that we are all human, aren't we? We all go through times where we see impossibilities but if you look deep within you can actually overcome it. It is possible for you to affirm yourself it is possible for you to overcome whichever challenge that is thrown at you It just depends what lenses you're looking through So allow me to start us off by saying that this is going to be a very candid kind of meeting We're going to remove our masks and we're going to share bare naked and unashamed It's going to be that meeting that we're not going to pretend because you're saying it's okay not to be okay It's okay not to be okay Ya It is okay to hurt and not be able to articulate it because all you can do is shed tears and bowl This is that kind of meeting where our speakers will pour their hearts out to you so that you come to the understanding that no matter how difficult no matter how bleak it seems there's always light at the end of the tunnel and we are here to affirm that over and over again there is light at the end of the tunnel To start us off this morning is a friend whom I have known My sister, the first one will be better than the house How cool is that? I miss those days but first forward I love what can be asked What is that thing you are afraid to do She mentioned Kid Stop I stand here today as a testimony to all of you All my siblings and those who are my friends know that my Nikle was home alone I was that person who was always at home I would never talk to people when visitors would come I would refuse to go and say hello to them and when I would be forced to greet them I would turn off the light and pretend I was asleep That's how shy I was but God had a message and a testimony and a purpose for my life So first forward to me starting working and over days when I didn't believe in myself and I remember I started out doing sales and I was there like What does sales require? Talking to people Who's the next part in talking to people? Thank you But again God has a sense of humor and so I grew and in that process I began discovering certain skills that I had I'm a creative at heart and everything in my So how does mental health look like where we are A study was done in 1986 by the Center for Disease Control and the study was called Adverse Childhood Experiences What we call 3 Realms of Assess and you say that if these things happen to you between the ages of 0 to 18 they increase your stress level and they reduce your resilience capacity to withstand other issues especially as you age Okay Adversities are found first of all within the household and one of them is emotional and sexual abuse The other one is alcoholism and drug abuse if you live in a house that has alcohol and drug abuse if you live or come from a family that has a parent who has a mental illness or even a parent who has passed away or is absent but present the speakers will talk about this more if you come from a homeless home if you come from a family that is divorced if you