SOCIAL STIGMA AND WITHDRAWAL FROM SOCIAL CIRCLE

The beginning of social stigma.

I am emotionally attached to this topic because it was a personal journey which informed my experience and formed part of character which I battled with for years but I was able to break free.

I know there are people out there that may be facing a similar situation, the good news is behaviour can be learned and unlearned.

Taking a retrospective look at my early childhood. At the age of two I was told that my mum has been taken to the psychiatric hospital that she is mentally unstable. To my tender mind I didn't understand what that means but all I knew was I never saw my mother while growing up.

I sat down waiting for her for hours on that faithful day, she ddint return. Days passed, weeks and even months but she never came back.

On a faithful day, while I was playing with my friends in school, they were all talking about what their mother did for them.
Then one of them innocently asked me a direct question, "What about your mother" .
I was dead silent, I looked at him and started crying, I didn't know what to say afterwards, I left their presence and that was the the day i stopped interacting with my peers.

" If you can understand the situation that led you into self sabotage and doubt , then you have  discovered your way to self confidence  " .

I was asked a question I couldn't answer and I have over the years tried vehemently to avoid been asked the same question, but not any more.

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