Sada came to the Center For Independent Living during her sophomore year while attending The University of Florida, to complete her practicum. She then came back as an intern, and once again to take on a temporary position as a COVID specialist. Today, Sada is a Community Outreach Specialist at CIL, supporting multiple roles and wears many hats on any given day.
On this episode, Sada takes us along on her journey to discovering that she has several different types of diagnosis. Sada shares how this discovery came about and provides insights and advice to those entering a new school year. She talks us through her personal experience and how to examine and reflect on whether something may be a personality trait or perhaps an underlining symptomatic diagnosis. She also talks about how to face and lean into the stigma that individuals might have as they uncover and may begin to question their diagnosis.
Tony and Sada partake in an important conversation regarding mental health challenges that young adults may be going through today. They also dive a discussion on success; how society defines it compared to how Sada has come to define it for herself. All of this has impacted her decision on what she has ending up studying at UF and ultimately leading her to where she is today at CIL.
