Emotional & Mental Health - SUN Cornwall

I make paintings.  It helps, a lot.

Hi, my name is Jane. Many years ago I was digonosed with depression by a Doctor I had not seen before, this took me quite by suprise but I had a sense of releif of finnally understanding why I felt the way I did. He recomended drugs, I declined and was determined to find a better way of being with this some times debilitating condition. My own Doctor refered me to a counseller who then refered me to a mental health day centre. From there I was offered funding and support to explore and study therapy. Ten years ago I started to work with children and young people in a needs led, theraputic creative way. I now also work with adults with addictions to drugs and alchol or in recovery as well as mental health difficulties. I run creative theraputic workshops based on verious issues around bereavment, loss, health and self healing, to mention a few. I use meditation and creativerty to explore what nurtures our Soul, most of all accepting the person for who they are and what they are experiancing or have experianced. I truly love what I do and the people I work with, as for my depression, it gets easier to be with every day. I have learnt to work with it, although I would not describe my self as depressive it is what has helped me be and understand the person I am today, with total acceptance of what is and who I am. I am passionate about the lack of holistic help in our community for children, young people and adults who suffer with mental health difficulties. The last couple of years I have been working with a friend to open up a residential centre, looking at holistic therapy and nutrition to take the place of medication. We only need about three million, anyone intrested?

I am also dyslexic so please forgive my spelling.

I'm a 52 year old male. I live in the North of England.

I openly call myself a ''SURVIVOR'.'  Surviving many traumatic life Event's, surviving much bad practice from various Statutory Bodies,  surviving much STIGMA/Discrimination'' for no other reason from Society, due to my physical/ Emotional dificulty's, Including hidden from public view, a physical Disability that  has great stigma attached.

Well after sharing that bit with you all, I can immagine the less well informed, might well think Neggative of me. Thoughts of misserable, boring lonely sad, nutter loon'y, nutter.  well I am some of them the rest don't actually exhist in the real world.  only in the minds of those who would abuse their fellow human being, when they are very much unable to challenge those who would stigmatise the many of us, who live with a physical/Mental illness.

Now let me share the very possitive side of this ''Survivor'' You only need to visit my own web site, right now.  www.odesofsurvival.co.uk 

Hello everyone at Sun Cornwall. I wish you all well.

Paul Davidson A Fellow  Human Being.    

I was born in Penzance and moved to Helston 5 years ago. I suffer from Bi-polar. I need someone to talk with and share my issues with, especially at night. Am looking to be active with other users to get more help in Cornwall. I have had to fight to get any help. I think if people got together, then perhaps we could tell the authorities we need more support. Night time is a terrible time, I do phone Samaritins and Nightlink, but there is no support when I am out of control. Are there others out there who are like me, or is it just me?

Visit my site at http://www.thebiasphere.org/!