Uganda: What It Means to Live With Hearing Voices

29 February 2012

He hears voices ordering him to do different things but what is scary about it is that it is not mere hallucination, it is a mental disorder.

I am Dennis Ssentammu (name changed), mine is a story of struggling with mental challenges most especially living with the condition where I hear voices .There's a bizarre turn of events that got me here but the long and short of it is, I woke up in a mental hospital at 24 years, just after completing university and only two months into my first job. I had never had any mental health challenges before and that incident left me shaken, but more was still to come.

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