Ubuntu Wellness e-Health Centre

15/01/2023

Kindness is a virtue

19/11/2022

Let love lead

04/11/2022

17/07/2022

ℹ️🌿 THE NEED FOR VALIDATION AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF INVALIDATION |

Validation: The recognition of a person’s thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behaviours as valid and understandable.[1]

Invalidation, then, is the rejection or dismissal of a person’s thoughts, feelings, emotions, and behaviours as being valid and understandable.

Invalidation can cause significant damage or upset to a person’s psychological health and well-being. When a person feels invalidated, it creates the belief that their subjective emotional experiences are unreasonable, unacceptable, or insignificant. The effects of invalidation can impact anyone, regardless of age, s*x, or culture, but children are the most susceptible the negative impact of invalidation, as their awareness and understanding of the world are still in development just like their brain and nervous system. The invalidated child is likely to develop pervasive feelings of insecurity and later difficulties in healthy emotional expression.

In both children and adults, invalidation can be traumatic. It jeopardises one’s sense of existence and self-worth, leading to feelings of anger, shame, guilt, and worthlessness. Such feelings can negatively impact an individual’s day to day functioning, and can lead to psychological health conditions like depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD).

Invalidation can cause an existential wound that goes so deep that can be perceived as threatening once right to exist. This can scar and stay with a person throughout their lives if not addressed and healed through adequate psychotherapy, psycho-education and effective tools for self-management and self-validation and of course healthy relational validation.

Read full article:
https://khironclinics.com/blog/invalidation/

17/07/2022

17/07/2022

It is possible and it exists!!!

25/03/2022

Mental health and whole well-being is often influenced by our environment. Family, friends and systems and structures like education, health,housing, employment, culture influence who we become.

Our identity can be comprised when our social relationships are not stable.
-Being bullied by friends, family and strangers is oppression.
- Being teased for being brown, bkue or black in complexion is discrimination that affects one's self esteem

- Being denied access to quality services like housing, education and health by those in power is a human right violation. It dehumanises people, it silences people.

-Dignity, respect and identity is lost!

- People in power like politicians and health professionals must use their power and privilege to support families and communities to access resources, including economic ones.

- We internalise being oppressed and manifest this through poor mental health outcomes where stress, distress, psychiatric conditions emerge.

-Our physical, biological, spiritual and socio-emotional balances tip over when we are labelled and othered.

- Let love lead!
- It costs nothing to be kind.

25/03/2022

Ever wonder who you are?
Reflecting on assumed identity, assigned identity and the real me, my unfiltered identity☺️☺️