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“We are anxious and on edge … We need to talk about the mental health impact that load shedding is having on us as a collective. It [load shedding] permeates every aspect of our lives, and the knock-on effects are real. It's making me angry and short-tempered, and irritable. I know I'm not alone on this…”

“These are all normal human responses when faced with uncertainty and frustration, especially if you feel ‘done in’," says professor Renata Schoeman, head of the MBA in Healthcare Leadership programme at Stellenbosch Business School.While Schoeman believes it is important to enlighten ourselves about and address the facts regarding the cause behind the current bouts of power cuts, it doesn’t help to focus on this because the result is the same.

The second step is to take control of what you can control, says Schoeman. “It doesn’t help to get involved in negative conversations about load shedding and get yourself more negative about it.” Instead, ask yourself, “What can I control?”

 

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Well not only do my area have loadshedding but now we are without water. So Eskom also caused Eikenhoff to fail. So now what

Totally I can’t sleep properly from anxiety

VP POTUS CyrilRamaphosa PresidencyZA A disgrace what the SouthAfrican Governent is doing to their people. Eskom SABCNews Radio702 EskomGauteng elonmusk Living in darkness 80% of time EFFSouthAfrica Loadshedding LoadsheddingStage5 hrw UNGeneva

Replace loadshedding with : Lockdown Corruption The anc Cost of living Unemployment. Find the root of loadshedding ,hint: its 2 of the above options

Strange that you ignored publishing such material when it very soon became patently obvious the hell ppl were expected to live under while subject to covid LDs.

The ANC is taking a toll on our mental, financial and physical health. Please let us remove the ANC from power and get someone like Musi Maimane to lead the charge.

As a mother of two kids I have battled alot with my financial state to the point of begging from friends just to survive,until I started Bitcoin trading with the help of Catherine_nico I made a successful withdrawal of R 200,000 with the help of Catherine_nico

Just like whe we had permanent loadshedding growing up, because electricity was meant for people with a different hue its sad we being inconvenienced again

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