About
I care, and I make sure I show it.I always try to help those people who deserve better in life. This stands true in my personal relationships, as well as my devotion to bettering society.
I currently do voluntary community service as a teacher at a township highschool near where I live, and next year I will start doing HIV/AIDS testing and counselling.
I am going into my third year of study at a university, with the aim of becoming a psychologist.
I love people.
I value things like loyalty, trust, compassion, understanding and honesty in a person. This is what I look for most in a friendship. Logic, rationality, intelligence and experience are great too, of course.
I don't like prejudice.
No one can be understood from first impressions. Getting to know someone is of utmost importance before making any kind of judgement. I never make a final judgement of anyone anyway, as people are always changing and growing.
I love nature.
Everything and everyone is part of nature. We interact with it and it with us. There is so much beauty in the world, from the colossal mountains, oceans, to the complexity of the living systems of plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms, to the chemical structures of everything around us. I think that most people don't appreciate nature enough. Many people are not fortunate enough to have the understanding of science to be able to appreciate so much of it. I wish more people respected it.
I have bipolar disorder II.
It is a mood disorder that relates to an imbalance in brain chemicals. It is usually caused by a mix of many factors, although the most notable one is emotional stressors, such as long term, or childhood, psychological trauma. Many people don't like to be defined by their illness. For me, I take it on as a part of my identity. It affects my every day life, from the pills I have to take every day and the adjustments I have to make to my life to avoid triggers, to the full symptoms of major depression, hypomania and mixed episodes. It is part of my identity since it shaped and is shaping so much of it. Years of struggling with undiagnosed and untreated mental illness affected how I grew up and how I saw the world. Knowing how to make the best of it and to deal with it productively has made me a better person, and now I have developed skills that allow me to do what I really care most about - helping others. I understand more, I empathize more, I can advise better, I can take on more and I am more resilient. Even though I suffer, I get so much satisfaction out of life from the things I can do for others.
Thank you for reading this. heart
I know it is quite the essay. wink
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im from joburg smile how about you?
it was
IM FROM SOUTH AFRICA BIATCHES
or something
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