Joseph Oloya

Authenticity, the Struggle of Discovering and Acting out your True Self

Jackson starred at the mirror but this time it was different; it was as if the mirror starred back at him. It’s as if the man in the mirror was talking to him. The scary bit was that it was a voice he could no longer recognize. The voice that reverberated so intensely but quickly …

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The Silent Pandemic; Understanding the Alcoholism Crisis Among Millennial Young Adults

All that remained from the previous night out was a throbbing headache, drowsiness and nausea. Jim lay face down in a vast pool of his own vomit, disoriented, bewildered and wallowing in his own filth. He was suffering a serious hangover from an entire night of binge drinking. But now in solitude, the emptiness of …

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Speaking up When depressed

According to a Newvision article, Uganda is among the top six African countries with the highest number of people suffering depressive disorders out of 50 African countries ranked in a World Health Organization report. The report shows that 1.7 million Ugandans suffer depressive disorders and 1.07 suffer anxiety disorders. According to the Ministry of health, …

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