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attitude gives life some taste

Dear Coach, I am an aggrieved sister of the early thirties and have a younger sister aged twenty- four (24) and she is the peril to my agony. Ever since her mid teenage stage, she went astray and started to behave in a very bad, shameful and agonising way.

She started sleeping around with different older man. When you trace her you will gearing towards a confusing and surprising journey. It is always; “she was here for two weeks and I found her gone, you can check her at Someone X’s house”. When you go to Someone X’s house, unfortunately it is always the same story.

We lost our mother when we were very young, especially her. We grew up under our father’s care. My father of course cannot be a mother, I tried to be that to my little sister but our efforts seemed to have failed us.

Editor's Comment
Depression is real; let's take care of our mental health

It is not uncommon in this part of the world for parents to actually punish their children when they show signs of depression associating it with issues of indiscipline, and as a result, the poor child will be lashed or given some kind of punishment. We have had many suicide cases in the country and sadly some of the cases included children and young adults. We need to start looking into issues of mental health with the seriousness it...

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