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MENTAL ILLNESS AND WELLNESS; THE THIN LINE BETWEEN KEEPING UP AND GIVING UP One word that can be used as an umbrella to this topic is "Struggle"; something unavoidable to every individual on earth; from the cry of babies as they try to draw in their first breath to the struggle to balance on their feet at old age. This write-up seeks to touch aspects of mental illness and wellness with the various words associated with it; " struggle" in particular. A thin line between mental illness and wellness can be said to be struggle; a determinant of mental illness and wellness, which can be perceived in a positive or negative perspective based on individual differences. Negatively, struggle is seen as a phenomenon or circumstances that can lead to strangulation, in other words the end product of struggle is strangle. It strangles one and makes one do the things he ought not to. Struggle has a power, it has a voice, it is a force. It means to strive, to contend, to labour...

CHEER UP As long as you are breathing, challenges are definitely unavoidable and like I saw on a friend's WhatsApp status earlier today,  "what you see as a challenge is an opportunity someone somewhere hopes to have" as we proceed, keep this quote some where in your mind, it'll be handy at some point in this write up. This write up is basically dedicated to student. I'm a student and I know how it feels having to read hard, results get uploaded and boom! Our expectations are shattered!. You are a student, you read hard, early mornings and late night classes back to back! You came out of the examination hall shining your teeth like you just got a message from the dentist that they are up to 32...but then after some weeks..the 32 teeth became scarce like a snail hiding in its shell. The results have been released and they turned out to be really unfair to you. I know this is not supposed to be funny but then let's make a joke out of this. If you would agre...

The first form of Liberty -Liberty is Salvation, receiving the life of Christ and Giving Him yours in return. As you walk with Him in this knowledge of being free, every other chain, every other form of bondage begins to be unveiled and broken. This is because as a result of salvation, a relationship with the Trinity is birthed. He begins to lead you and guide you into all truth; He begins to bring you out of every deception of the Devil even as you yield. So when you feel you are the worst sinner on earth, He reminds you to come boldly to the throne of Grace. When you begin to have the fear of the Future, He reminds you that He is the author of your life, before you were formed, He knew you already and that His thoughts towards you are of good and not of evil to give you an expected end. When you feel nothing good can come out of you, when you feel weak, when you feel like a failure, He then reminds you to trust in Him Liberty....let's talk about Liberty. The Bible sa...

YOU ARE TO... You are to bring the best in me not the worse You are to carry me not to push me to the wall You are to encourage me not to frustrate me You are to support me not to stress me You are to understand me not to act carelessly You are to feel my pain not to act blindly You are to build me not break me You are to be a friend...not an enemy sometimes                   .......©endowed'19.......

Humility!! Let us briefly explore the personality of Humility Truthfully, Humility as a personality cannot be faked. It is a virtue that comes naturally from within. Humility is simply the freedom from pride or arrogance. Humility does not have a mindset that one's opinions and thoughts are better than that of others. Humility goes hand in hand with selflessness and generosity. Humility is KEY! The word "Humility" was derived from a Latin word, "Humilis" which means low. Now let's get something clear, the fact that someone is humble does not mean one has a low self esteem. They are two different things. "Low" for humility simply means welcoming the opinion of others, subjecting one's self to corrections, allowing the free flow of what other people think and utilizing them in becoming a better person. Low self esteem on the other hand is lack of confidence in one's self. It is no news that the opposite of Humility is Pride. We...

I f you would ask me what the word R econciliation entails, I’d simply break down the word for at least an 80% understanding for the beautiful mind reading this piece. The root word here is Re concile which is a verb and then we have a bound morpheme wh ich makes it a noun, Reconciliation . Now this brings us to the definition of the word Reconciliation" , our concentration in this write-up. According to my dictionary here, to reconcile simply means to “to restore again, to make things compatible and consistent, to bring back to harmony” if we would get it right, then Reconciliation would mean the process of these things aforementioned. In the beginning, there was a plan to create man in God’s image and likeness, of course this plan was beautiful and it came out well until the devil came into the garden with his vices….everything crumbled, there was a need fo r Recon ciliation and then, God sent his only Son…like his only treasure called a son just for some creatures in w...