Update on my journey
Well I have been very busy lately and apologise for not putting new pictures up on my website. I will do as soon as possible. (I need to sort out the copyright on my laptop) I am now officially free from services and am no longer classed as a service user. It is hard to stop calling myself a service user as I have been that all my adult like and some of my childhood too.
I am now working for Creative minds (how great is that?) The company that saved me is continuing to support me but in a very different role. I am still doing my voluntary work with the mental health charities that I am passionate about. I continue to do the talks informing people of my journey and enlightening them on how it feels to be a service user. I have done several talks at universities to the student nurses, occupational; therapists, social workers to name a few. I have also done talks to psychiatrists and psychologist which went down extremely well (after feeling like I haven’t been listened to most of my adult life, I now watch as they hang on to my every word.) If you would like me to do at talk at your event/course then please just ask and I will see what I can do.
I still go to my studio, not as often as I would have liked, but it is still my sanctuary. People keep asking if I will ever take art up full time, but to me art is about freedom and expression. I feel if I started to do it as a ‘job’ then it would lose the tranquillity that I feel when I do go and let myself loose on the paints. I am always looking for funding for the studio, so if anyone out there is willing to support that then please feel free to get in touch. Also if anyone wants a, tour of my studio please feel free to ask and we can sort a personal tour out.
I continue to strive for better mental health services and reducing stigma about mental ill health. I will continue to be a positive face of mental health as long as I can. Whilst I have no guarantees that I will never get ill again, I will do what I can while I can so that should I need those services again, it will be better and easier to use and access.
Please if you have any questions then just ask, I don't bite and love to speak/meet people (It has been said that I can talk the hind legs off a donkey!) It would be lovely to hear from you even if its just a hi, how are you?
Take care
Debs
I am now working for Creative minds (how great is that?) The company that saved me is continuing to support me but in a very different role. I am still doing my voluntary work with the mental health charities that I am passionate about. I continue to do the talks informing people of my journey and enlightening them on how it feels to be a service user. I have done several talks at universities to the student nurses, occupational; therapists, social workers to name a few. I have also done talks to psychiatrists and psychologist which went down extremely well (after feeling like I haven’t been listened to most of my adult life, I now watch as they hang on to my every word.) If you would like me to do at talk at your event/course then please just ask and I will see what I can do.
I still go to my studio, not as often as I would have liked, but it is still my sanctuary. People keep asking if I will ever take art up full time, but to me art is about freedom and expression. I feel if I started to do it as a ‘job’ then it would lose the tranquillity that I feel when I do go and let myself loose on the paints. I am always looking for funding for the studio, so if anyone out there is willing to support that then please feel free to get in touch. Also if anyone wants a, tour of my studio please feel free to ask and we can sort a personal tour out.
I continue to strive for better mental health services and reducing stigma about mental ill health. I will continue to be a positive face of mental health as long as I can. Whilst I have no guarantees that I will never get ill again, I will do what I can while I can so that should I need those services again, it will be better and easier to use and access.
Please if you have any questions then just ask, I don't bite and love to speak/meet people (It has been said that I can talk the hind legs off a donkey!) It would be lovely to hear from you even if its just a hi, how are you?
Take care
Debs
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