A day dedicated to and a chance to openly discuss Mental Health, the issues, the dangers, how to cope, and how to get help if one is struggling without the stigma usually attached to this very important historically neglected, often demonized subject.
The Mental Health foundation has been working over 70 years to ensure mental health is treated the same way as physical health and it is about time the world stopped and listened. Followed by a wonderful, emotional evening listening to one man’s raw experience about the demise of his Alzheimer’s suffering wife, was an education, and an opportunity to research for my sequel to ‘The light of darkness’.
Fascinated to hear David Walliams interview Scott Mitchell, as Scott lay open his experiences, candidly sharing the story of his beautiful wife, the late Barbara Windsor, famous for the ‘Carry On’ films and the Soap Opera ‘Eastenders’. It was impossible not to sympathise as Scott highlighted Barbara’s brilliant life and at the end, her struggles with Alzheimers disease, and how he coped with her diagnosis and eventually her death.
I look forward to reading Scott’s book ‘By Your Side – My Life Loving Barbara Windsor’ @alzheimersresearchuk The theme of 2022’s World Mental Health Day is ‘Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority.’ For my mental wellbeing, I personally find the spiritual route the most helpful. A deep sound meditation, followed by yoga and ending the day with Herman Hess’s ‘Siddhartha’ helps not only to sleep but to also calm the mind and relax the body.
Love who you are