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Former Citizen TV presenter Kimani Mbugua on Wednesday, October 12 sparked reactions on social media over claims that he was detained at Mathare Hospital against his will.
He was abandoned there by his parents after suffering a brief psychotic episode, he says.
I appeal to all people who know me to kindly appeal to my parents to let me out of Mathare Hospital. I came here after a brief psychotic episode on the 4th of August and was discharged on the 10th of the same month. My parents have left me here to punish me,”
KIMANI MBUGUA TWEETEDIt appears that this is not the first time Mbugua is being admitted at Mathare Hospital, in 2020, the journalist said he was admitted at the facility twice.
He said he started smoking weed resulting to an addiction which became severe that he developed psychotic illnesses and admitted to the mental hospital.
Mbugua said a breakup got him hooked into drugs and he started cheating on his girlfriend with different women.
Narrating his experience with hard drugs. He said in a podcast,
Your brain goes out of reality when you are doing drugs. After I smoked weed, I started seeing things out of reality, I developed schizophrenia,
The first diagnosis I received was an acute psychotic episode, to show that something huge had happened to me.”
