What started as a bout of anxiety followed by an overwhelming shift in worldview and increased brain activity would later be diagnosed as bipolar disorder for Eng Reuben Onunga.
He recalls that in 2017, during a particularly demanding period at work and while exploring political interests, he experienced a severe health breakdown.
At first, the situation puzzled him, and those close to him considered everything from spiritual attacks to witchcraft. "I didn't understand what was happening to me," he says. "It was only after I visited a hospital that I began to find answers." Concerned friends who had noticed his erratic behavior and unusual posts on Facebook took him to a mental health facility in Nairobi's Westlands area. "I was actually taken to a mental hospital by friends.
I had been posting strange things online, and they grew alarmed," he tells The Standard.
