Tag: Mental Health

Betting on Disaster: The hidden cost of Kenya’s gambling craze – from insomnia to suicides 

Betting addicts suffer the "sunk-cost fallacy" where, instead of quitting, they continue…

Headline Anxiety: How Negative news is breaking your health  

Kenyans suffer from ‘Headline Anxiety’ and result to ‘Doomscrolling’ or continually scrolling…

Healing Harmonies: How music heals breakups, stress, depression 

If you listen to heartbreaking songs, you will keep thinking about heartbreaks……

New Year, No Cheer: Signs you’re suffering ‘New Year Depression’   

‘New Year Blues’ is worsened by end of festivities, social media comparisons,…

‘Attempted suicide’ no longer a crime in Kenya, Court rules 

Criminalising attempted suicide “indignifies and disgraces victims of suicide ideation... for actions…

Kenya’s rising frustration: Broken promises, corruption and loneliness

Professor Lukoye Atwoli sheds light on why Kenyans are increasingly angry. He…

Devil on the Cross: Why Kenyans are angry 

PROF LUKOYE ATWOLI Psychiatrist and Dean at the Aga Khan University Medical…

Alcohol Use Disorder: I sweat buckets, I am weak, crave isolation  

I drink an entire bottle of whisky in one sitting while others…

What’s behind the growing frustration in Kenya?

Professor Lukoye Atwoli sheds light on why Kenyans are increasingly angry. He…

House of Pain: They would die together tonight… 

What she doesn’t remember is when the abuse began. Then one day…