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Group Poem: Turning Still
https://youtu.be/W8yG4ueOJcQ Poetry written by Juliet McDonald, Joan Ellis, Rachel Matthews Burton and Shirin Teifouri.Artwork by Joan Ellis.Poem is recited by...
Graham Morgan: Middlewood - All those Years Ago
It is so long ago that I was a patient in Middlewood; nearly forty years. It was my first admission...
Cerowyn Browne: Lockdown Poetry
https://youtu.be/g-nAyFP6G3g Cerowyn Browne - "Lockdown Poetry"
NA: Who I Am
I am a very confident lady, but my childhood has made me who I am. When I was a child...
Ella Donnison: 6 tips for managing coronovirus anxiety
Anxiety and worry about the current coronavirus situation is taking hold of us all, the news and social media report...
Rachel Brown: My depression, my story, my fight
I have been suffering from depression since being a child due to bullying in high school. I fight this every...
Lucy Hamilton: Lessons Learned From a Month in Quarantine
On the 24th January 2020, I woke up in our 12th floor apartment in China with the New Year holiday...
Anne Sophie Cornelius: I Cut Off My Abuser Two Years Ago And Here’s What’s Happened Since
For those who don’t know, two years ago I made the soul-wrenchingly liberating decision to say “enough is enough, treat...
Josh: Why I’m Grateful to Be Alive
Before my breakdown, I was working a stressful job that made me a lot of my money. I was OBSESSED...
Trish Chester: I Want to Tell You a Story
“Are you sitting comfortably …” “The courage it takes to share your story might be the very thing someone else...