Wellness and Happiness Series: Mental Health and Identity Disorders

Mental Health: Wellbeing and Happiness Series with MoNya-Mental By Psychotherapist Mertha Mo Nyamande What is? I am… you are, a man - black African, or a woman, white Caucasian, a Christian, or Muslim, a Preacher or Teacher, or whatever I believe myself to be, our names, tribes, totems, etc. We identify ourselves with those which we have formed strong attachments to. Our identities are complex elements of what our societies have taught us they are. My name was given and has been repeated to me numerous times before I realised that whenever it is called, I know it refers to me, and so I respond.