Growing number of people seek mental healthcare
A growing number of people are seeking mental healthcare; experts attribute this to the current economic hardships and people losing their loved ones to COVID-19.
The increased awareness of mental health problems has also resulted in people presenting at healthcare facilities seeking help. Johannesburg resident, 46-year-old Tracy Price who suffers from bipolar disorder, shares her journey:
“It is very difficult to diagnose mental illness because you get so many different types. You get Bipolar 1 and you get Bipolar 2,” says Price.
Price from Weltevreden Park, west of Johannesburg suffers from Bipolar 2 disorder. She was diagnosed when she was in her early 20s. She’s had six nervous breakdowns and has been hospitalised three times. Price says Bipolar two sufferers struggle with depressive moods.
“Your moods can change within seconds. You can go from a high and you can go right down. Like on Friday morning I woke up and I was like, I felt kind of numb, I felt quite sad. I did not feel like doing anything and yet on Thursday I was so happy, I was so excited. And you do not know when is going to happen. You can’t just snap your fingers and say maybe if I can go see this person, I will feel happier or maybe if I got myself chocolate, I will feel happier, it does not work like that. You kind of like have to ride it out,” says Price.
Source: IOL
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