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Getting in your face with trauma

MENTAL HEALTH

MENTAL illness is often hidden because of fear, stigma or shame; and then there is Niki Saks.

The South African businesswoman has written an audacious, in-your-face-book detailing her mental health struggles and how she was finally diagnosed with “quiet” borderline personality disorder (BPD) in 2018 at the age of 47.

Through her book, Hiding in the Open: Living Sensitively, Saks gives us a candid account

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