Rising above childhood trauma to give hope to mental health victims

Mental Health Champion Joyce Mugure at the Psychiatric Disability Organisation offices in Nakuru. [Harun Wathari, Standard]

It has taken Joyce Mugure years to process the serious childhood trauma she experienced while growing up in an unstable home with emotional and physical abuse. 

At the age of 13, she had gone through so much trauma and there was no one to explain to her that she shouldn’t have gone through those things. She had to figure it out for herself.