Mental illness encompasses a vast field of mental health conditions also called mental health disorders that affect the way one’s mood, behavior, and thoughts. According to the WHO, mental disorders include bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, depression, and other psychoses, dementia, and developmental disorders such as autism. A mental health disorder becomes…

On Sunday morning during mothers’ day, Luke was arrested for stealing pampers from a nearby store. Luke was a smart, caring, and obedient 6-year-old living with her mother and his 8-month-old sister in a remote village in the outskirts of Kampala. On that fateful Sunday morning, one would assume that…

Anytime we proclaim truth through verbal means, we are raising moral and ethical truth issues and not existential truth. Words are like any symbol that helps us to identify the pathway to the truth ‘they are not truth themselves’. When thinking from an existential perspective, truth is not in the…

Back in the times when technology was not deeply entrenched in our systems, there was less comfort and more physical hard work. A 60-year-old then was involved ten times more in physical activities compared to a contemporary 20-year-old. In as much as people in the old days were interested in…