Tag: mental illness
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Is gardening is self-care? It is for me (Part 1)
Someone suggested gardening as self-care for my next post – even though they hate gardening themselves. The first thing to say – the activity you choose for self-care is very personal, the benefits more universal. In some areas your health professional may be able to prescribe an activity you are interested in trying. Oxford Languages…
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Older with bipolar – a double whammy
Life after work I came to the end of my formal working life a few years ago and believed I still had something to offer in terms of skills and experience. After a few months I realised that I wasn’t quite ready for full retirement and I sought out part-time paid work – nothing onerous,…
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There are only seven basic plots
Sleeper – Part one. A memoir of my last psychosis, with the love and kindness of Londoners “She’s confused” Hamid Hussein looks up from his notes. His two colleagues agree that I should be detained. Hamid draws the pro forma from his in-tray and, checking his watch, begins writing in the top left hand corner:…
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“Is being mentally ill normal?”
This is one of those auto suggested queries from Google when you start typing, so I guess quite a few people ask it. I have had five hospital admissions, including the last one, ten years ago, under the Mental Health Act, as a compulsory patient. In one earlier case, although I was very unwell and…