Please keep me anonymous.
I was still trying to digest the video that has been trending this past week. A gospel singer and creative popularly know as Ngwana Ledwaba is in hot water for attacking a woman said to be bipolar.
I have had the same experience that ngwana Ledwaba had. Back in year 2000 a mentally ill guy who lives in the same village as me entered my house. I was heavily pregnant at that time.
I knew the guy but i didn't know he was mentally ill until that day. Fortunately for me he didn't attack me. He just walked straight to one of the rooms in the house and locked himself in.
I ran out and called out for help. He was fully dressed. Neighbours came and they failed to talk him out until the police arrived and they managed to get him out. But i was left traumatised. Inspite of his mental health i felt like he violated my privacy.
For months i was scared of my own house. I was not comfortable and every little sound made me jump. Now i am imagining waking up in the morning, opening the door and you see a naked woman moving like a snake and making funny sounds charging towards you.
According to the videos watched the woman was aggressive. And According to the interview the woman allegedly forced herself inside the house and started strangling the home owner. The home owner's kids were inside the house.
She probably worried about their safety. Seeing a naked woman outside in the early hours automatically screams witchcraft. Perhaps we need more education mental health but witchcraft gone wrong would have been the first thing on anyone's mind.
Mental health would be the last thing on one's mind if they never had to deal with this before. It's a whole new experience and action was sipped from shock. What Ngwana Ledwaba did with the pepper spray and all was very wrong but unfortunately it happened.
Our homes are a place of safety and when an intruder shows up we act first then think later. The man that intruded in my house looked at my pregnancy and said there's no child in there, it's air because we took him.
I was 8 months pregnant and when i was informed by neighbours that he has apparently lost his mind since last week i didn't dwell too much into his message. He said this whie being taken away by the police.
The following month i gave birth to a still born. The mentaly ill man mentioned that it's a boy back then we didn't have sonars. I indeed gave birth to a baby boy that never made it alive.
To this day i have to live with the fact that the man didn't mean what he said because he is bipolar even though all that he said became my reality. How do i heal from such?
What Ngwana Ledwaba did was wrong but we grew up being told that any failed night mission results into insanity in the morning and being naked. Yes she was wrong but she too was traumatised. Listen to the interview here.
COULDN'T HELP BUT NOTICE THAT KWENISTO WAS BEING BIASED HERE!
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