{"id":645,"date":"2026-10-16T01:40:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=645"},"modified":"2026-10-16T01:40:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T01:40:59","slug":"when-mental-health-struggles-go-unheard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/?p=645","title":{"rendered":"When mental health struggles go unheard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"945\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9751fe53-6544-4f59-b15d-402fada4aad6_images-41-og_image.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-646\" srcset=\"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9751fe53-6544-4f59-b15d-402fada4aad6_images-41-og_image.webp 945w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9751fe53-6544-4f59-b15d-402fada4aad6_images-41-og_image-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/9751fe53-6544-4f59-b15d-402fada4aad6_images-41-og_image-768x512.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 945px) 100vw, 945px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some Kenyan families go through mental-health difficulties which start with changes they struggle to explain.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A daughter loses her baby and begins behaving differently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A son returns home after searching for work, struggling with substance use and behaviour his family finds difficult to manage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elsewhere, a young woman loses her parents, becomes pregnant at a young age and experiences psychological distress with little family support.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Kenyan families go through mental-health difficulties which start with changes they struggle to explain.\u00a0&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/645\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/updateplug.co.ke\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}