WHO WE ARE
MentaliTea is a mental health support initiative born out of the need for anonymous, confidential, worry and stigma free environments to chat and talk it out over a cuppa.
As is often the case, many individuals feel ashamed to disclose their mental health struggles to their families, friends as well as practitioners in traditional mental health support facilities such as counselling centres or psychotherapy clinics and more often than not, choose to battle these struggles alone. When these struggles are kept bottled in, they sometimes morph into major depression which affects one’s ability to be productive and live their life optimally.
MentaliTea is not an alternative nor a replacement for professional mental health care and treatment. The initiative aims to create a casual, comfortable space for people to chat with a person that is completely uninvolved with any facet of their life which is often a highly effective method of stress relief free from prejudice.
25% of the adult population globally have at one point of their lives suffered from a form of Mental Health disorder
Every 40 seconds, there is a suicide happening somewhere in the world.
800,000+The number of people who kill themselves every year.
80 suicide cases were reported in Kenya in the month of October 2018 alone
78% of the reported suicide cases in Kenya in 2017 are men
6th – Kenya’s rank out of 54 African countries in number of reported depression cases.
