# Sitawa Wafula: Why I speak up about living with epilepsy

Once homebound by epilepsy, mental health advocate Sitawa Wafula found her strength in writing about it. Now, she advocates for others who are yet to find their voices, cutting through stigma and exclusion to talk about what it's like to live with the condition.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2017
- Runtime: 8 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/SitawaWafula_2017S)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/SitawaWafula_2017S?play=1)