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14/06/2021 / Linnie / 0 Comments

Re: the video of the young girl guzzling down gin till she passed out.
Binge drinking is scary not just cause you could die from acute pancreatitis, or massive bleeding when you rupture veins in your food pipe, but even if you survive those two
— Gracie (@PathGracie) June 14, 2021

Don't glamorize binge drinking, especially not with heavy liquors. Some effects of alcohol come fast and some kill, and some last for life.
— Gracie (@PathGracie) June 14, 2021

Alcoholic Coma
I have seen a video of a young girl who was made to drink 750mls of Gilbeys Gin at a go..
Let me tell you why this is very dangerous..
— Dr.Bosire Wairimu MD, MSc, MBA (@Lasterbosire) June 14, 2021

Acute alcohol intoxication with respiratory failure (impulses of your breathing come from the brainstem),aspiration(contents of the stomach getting to the lungs),low blood pressure and heart failure(mostly due to abnormal electric activity)- literally multi-organ failure
— Dr.Bosire Wairimu MD, MSc, MBA (@Lasterbosire) June 14, 2021

12/06/2021 / Linnie / 0 Comments

"Trauma is not the bad things that happened to you,
but what happened inside you as a result of what happened to you."
– Dr. Gabor Maté
— daktariLinnie 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪 🇰🇪 (@LinniewaGC) June 12, 2021

the story of an abusive marriage in an abusive community

The Napolitan Novels by Elena Ferrante

30/05/2021 / Linnie / 0 Comments

The Neapolitan books are set somewhere in Italy, a poor neighborhood in Naples where violence and strife are so normalized everyone is conditioned to either not react to it or react with more violence. This neighborhood could be anywhere in the world, even in Nairobi.

I almost annoyed myself into stopping reading the Neapolitan series because in the first book My Brilliant Friend Lenú’s siblings said: “You look like a negro” with a certain ‘contempt’ when Lenu came back from Ischia. The sun had painted Lenú’s skin with dark gold. Thank heavens that I am not one to leave a book half-read, or a sentence half-said. So I finished the first book My Brilliant Friend and thought I was done. A couple of weeks later, I couldn’t stop thinking about Lila in her new marriage. I wondered if Lenú would become a brilliant scholar, teacher, lecturer or just marry and be done with it. I wondered if Melina would get better.

So, I went to the library and borrowed the 2nd book The Story of a New Name. After that, there was no stopping

6 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗧𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮 by Green Strings Network

27/05/2021 / Linnie / 0 Comments

This thread was published by Green String Network on 31st October 2019. It’s a 5 min read that is worth a year and a half. Visit GSN on their website for lots more on mental health and trauma awareness. And on Twitter for insights you may not find anywhere else @GSNAfrica

Individual Trauma: results from an event, series of events, or set of circumstances experienced by an individual as physically or emotionally harmful or life-threatening with lasting adverse effects on their wellbeing.

1. 𝗦𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮: a big incident that leaves a community with painful memories that alter their social health, eg a massacre, bombing, car accident, house fire, etc. It lingers with them for a long time.

2. 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗿 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘂𝗺𝗮: is trauma obtained from supporting others who have experienced trauma. There can be a build up of stress over time that can cause changes to one’s psychological, physical & spiritual well-being.

growth catalysts commentary on collective trauma caused by Israeli occupation of Palestina

Israeli Palestinian violence causing Collective Trauma for over 70years

16/05/2021 / Linnie / 0 Comments

Have you ever tried ignoring your neighbors in plot 10 who fight inside their house so you can hear the bangs, crashes and dunces on the walls? What of when you find them punching each other in the corridor, on the stairs and outside on the street? The parent in house 14b who beats their child up twice or thrice a week so you can hear the child’s fright, desperation and cries for help – have you been able to forget? Have you ever seen a murdered person outside plot 10 as you went to work in the morning or as you came home from work?

Did you then move on with your day and life without remembering the fights, the sounds and the dead body? That is how the bloodshed, crying Palestinian children, stunned adults and fire and smoke from airstrikes affect us. They stay in our minds disrupting our peace, stressing us psychologically and physiologically.