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Hayley Mulenda

May 25, 2026

17:01
What happened next?
17:03
So, um, I went to university, and in my first year of university, I think it really dawned on me that I'd actually gone through quite a lot of traumatic experiences, and I didn't necessarily get taught how to process well.
17:13
'Cause something I would definitely say in the African Caribbean society, mental health pre-2015 was never discussed.
17:19
Mental health became a, a, mental health was a tab- taboo word, right, in our communities.
17:24
Um, now it's a bit more palatable, but prior to 2015, you were not hearing the word mental health.
17:28
And I didn't actually realize that some of these experiences actually led me to actually have depressive episodes.
17:33
So it was only when I got to university, I'd realized that actually, Haider, you've gone through some stuff, and you are actually dealing with some depression, and you are dealing with some anxiety.

33 MINS LATER

50:25
And what does your husband do? Because he works in the social media space, right?

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