{"id":23936,"date":"2023-01-23T17:25:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/01\/23\/africa-eye-filmmaker-noella-luka-documents-her-battle-with-bipolar-disorder\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T17:25:38","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:25:38","slug":"africa-eye-filmmaker-noella-luka-documents-her-battle-with-bipolar-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=23936","title":{"rendered":"Africa Eye: Filmmaker Noella Luka documents her battle with bipolar disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">\u2018What Is Eating My Mind\u2019, a documentary for BBC Africa Eye, is an insightful and deeply personal story of living with bipolar disorder in Kenya, where the issue of mental health is often taboo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Noella Luka was living out her dream of studying filmmaking in the US when a manic episode turned her life upside down. She was hospitalised and diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Noella quit film school, returned to Kenya, and picked up a camera. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">For years, she has kept a record of her battle with bipolar disorder and her search for answers to one burning question: \u2018What Is Eating My Mind?\u2019 While filming, she faces her biggest challenge yet, but her story is one of hope.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-africa-64371910?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] \u2018What Is Eating My Mind\u2019, a documentary for BBC Africa Eye, is an insightful and deeply personal story of living with bipolar disorder in Kenya, where the issue of &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}