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Nairobi \u2014 When the term mental health comes up in Kenya, the public imagination often turns to high-pressure professions–police officers turning their guns on themselves or others, doctors weighed down by long hours, or university students buckling under academic and social stress.<\/em><\/p>\n Headlines about tragic shootings, suicides, and breakdowns have become common, often attributed to depression and other mental illnesses.<\/p>\n Yet, amid the national discourse, one demographic remains largely invisible:…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 When the term mental health comes up in Kenya, the public imagination often turns to high-pressure professions–police officers turning their guns on themselves or others, doctors weighed down by long hours, or university students buckling under academic and social stress. Headlines about tragic shootings, suicides, and breakdowns have become common, often attributed to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":200751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,8868,4688,430,6097,9019,257,10997,51713,254,15129,27438,18862],"class_list":["post-200750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-hope","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-model","tag-news","tag-offers","tag-peerled","tag-south-africa-today","tag-teens","tag-therapy","tag-troubled"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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