Isobel
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Hello everyone,
I've just worked out how to use this board. I'm involved in mental health in several ways. I have long-standing major depressive illness and my husband has life-long mental illness, we actually met in hospital. Because we were in what was supposed to be a therapeutic community the staff were very down on our relationship but we persisted and have now been married almost 11 years. So much for them. My husband's son had a very bad time when he started secondary school and only managed 1/2 a term. After a lot of upset and hassle he ended up on the Bethlem Children's unit for 5 months (we think it's a very good unit) where they diagnosed him with high functioning autism. He is now in a special school which he still finds very difficult and has had a lot more alarming and traumatic problems. We're hoping that now he's crashed his way through them he'll be able to come to terms with himself and settle down a bit.
My sister has also recently had a severe depressive breakdown.
I do everything I can to speak out about mental illness and try to reduce the stigma but I can't manage demos of any kind and because I get so tired and muddled I don't have many useful hours in the day which is very frustrating.
One thing I am involved in is the work being done at my local hospital mental health promotion unit and chaplaincy on MH and spirituality. We've had 2 workshops so far, one at a local mosque. The next one is planned for my local Friends' Meeting House - I am a Quaker. Quakers have recently started a country-wide disability equality group so I intend to use that in aid of knowledge about mental illness and the disabilities it causes.
Take care everyone,
Isobel
I've just worked out how to use this board. I'm involved in mental health in several ways. I have long-standing major depressive illness and my husband has life-long mental illness, we actually met in hospital. Because we were in what was supposed to be a therapeutic community the staff were very down on our relationship but we persisted and have now been married almost 11 years. So much for them. My husband's son had a very bad time when he started secondary school and only managed 1/2 a term. After a lot of upset and hassle he ended up on the Bethlem Children's unit for 5 months (we think it's a very good unit) where they diagnosed him with high functioning autism. He is now in a special school which he still finds very difficult and has had a lot more alarming and traumatic problems. We're hoping that now he's crashed his way through them he'll be able to come to terms with himself and settle down a bit.
My sister has also recently had a severe depressive breakdown.
I do everything I can to speak out about mental illness and try to reduce the stigma but I can't manage demos of any kind and because I get so tired and muddled I don't have many useful hours in the day which is very frustrating.
One thing I am involved in is the work being done at my local hospital mental health promotion unit and chaplaincy on MH and spirituality. We've had 2 workshops so far, one at a local mosque. The next one is planned for my local Friends' Meeting House - I am a Quaker. Quakers have recently started a country-wide disability equality group so I intend to use that in aid of knowledge about mental illness and the disabilities it causes.
Take care everyone,
Isobel
