"Let me start my story with a few words about my condition: I have paranoid schizophrenia. I was diagnosed at the age of 21, when I was a university student. I have always dreamed of a scientist’s career, and I was especially interested in biology.
It is rather difficult for me to talk about this openly but my story may help someone, which encourages me to share it. When a woman understands that she is not alone, that others also have experienced the same problems and have managed to find
„I am a Kist woman. I grew up in the Pankisi Gorge and finished middle school here. As I wanted to enroll at a medical university, I went to Tbilisi and graduated from a high school there with honors. In those times graduates with honors
„I am Mariam Mikiashvili. I am 28 years old. I have a spouse and a child, who will be one year old soon. I live in Tbilisi and I am a special education teacher. I studied this profession in Norway. Before that, I got a
„Teodora is 6 years old, she goes to a kindergarten and the Portage Association of Georgia, where she has been involved in the Early Development Program since she was 2-3 months. She is already finishing the program and will go to school, but we have
„I am a doctor, a surgeon, and a mother of two. I faced opposition from my relatives at the time of making a decision as to which career to pursue. They explained that surgeons had to work very hard and a woman, whose duty was
„My mother was a teacher, a proud and beautiful woman. But she was paralyzed from childbirth after she had twins. Her husband abandoned her and left her alone with three children – my three-year old brother, my twin sibling and me. It was 1930 -
„I starkly remember the day we fled our home. I was 9 years old then. I have many bad memories of it. The most vivid of them is my mother’s face, as I watched her crying. I could realize what was going on around me.
“I want to tell you the story of my life and I will be more than happy if my audience includes women. I was 8 when my father passed away, leaving my mom and me behind. We needed income for me to go to school, buy