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When people get mental stress, they seek help from a psychiatrist or a psychologist. Others going through life’s upheavals see their spiritual leaders – pastors, priests and prophets. But where do these professionals seek help when they reach the end of their human tethers?
Kenyans who console, offer guidance and counselling sometimes go through breaking points that cause mental trauma. Think first responders who include ambulance paramedics, fire fighters, first aiders, the police, humanitarian and social workers.
Then there are morgue attendants who daily have to deal with the waking reality of our mortality. Like Mary Nzilani, a morgue attendant at Machakos Level 5 Hospital mortuary. She often plants or tends to flowers to cope with mental stress of dealing with the bereaved.
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