Is the Land of the Brave, brave enough to talk about mental health.

As someone who has talked and written about my own mental health challenges, it pains me to read of the several suicides a week that Namibia averages. We often hear the phrase after someone has committed suicide, they didn’t seem suicidal.’ That is precisely the challenge; mental health challenges are rarely visible. Mental health challenges do not manifest or announce themselves so clearly. We must do better as employers, as a nation, and at every stage in life, to remove the terrible stigma that surrounds dealing with depression and mental health issues. Just as ramps and elevators make physical spaces accessible, open dialogue and mental health literacy make emotional spaces safer.