Release of newly updated Books
I have republished, edited and updated my memoirs, under a new title:
Happiness Is a Way Of Living: How I Escaped the Straitjacket of Serious Mental Illness, My Story
It is available as a paperback in full colour, printed on premium white paper to allow for the best reproduction of the B&W and Colour photographs. For those who would like to read it on their phones, tablets or computers, they will still be able to enjoy good reproductions,…..
6. We both drifted off into a sound, relaxing, dreamlike sleep
Soon it would be Christmas 2014. Sometime earlier in the year, I had started to attend the All Saint’s Anglican Church in Derby Road, here in Eastleigh. A new young pastor who had trained at Cambridge University gave the sermon. His oration was eloquent. I left impressed. I returned the next Sunday.
Christmas celebration services were planned. I invited my Asian friends to attend these with me……
Roger, my teacher, delivered my certificates to me today.
When he phoned I was busy getting breakfast. It was noon. I told him I wasn’t dressed. Then I thought to ask, “Where are you?”, thinking he expected my to fetch my certificates from his home.
“I’m downstairs.”
I thought he meant he was waiting in his car in the yard. I was too excited to wait and dress, so I rushed down in my gown, opened the door and:
“AHH!” we both…..
On Saturday the 20th June I wrote my Grade 6 Music Theory exam. I had to wait 6 weeks before the full results were published, though I received my initial results after a month from my teacher, Dr Roger Hansford.
I liked the paper, I thought the questions were fair, no tricky ones. I used the full time allowed, including an extra hour, given to me because I suffer from dyslexia. I would have been lost without that extra hour! I started reading through…..
As a taster, let me tell you that I have co-written a new book with my mother, Rosemary Venter, as my co-author. It is about our life in Africa, before we were “Uprooted by the Winds of Change”!
As soon as it’s published I’ll let you know.
I performed my Grade 3 Clarinet exam on Thursday 13th of November.
I made a bad decision by not listening to Nicola’s advice. She, my clarinet teacher, suggested that I should do my best pieces first, with the purpose of playing myself into the mood as it were, thus giving me confidence for the rest of the exam. Instead I thought I’d first do the parts with which I have difficulty, leaving my favourite ones to the end thinking…..
Recovery
A research paper by Sandy Walker and James Wilson
“Recovery is about building a meaningful and satisfying life, as defined by the person themselves, whether or not there are ongoing or recurring symptoms or problems”
(Shepherd et al 2008).
I wholly concur with the above sentiment and have said for a number of years that I have fully recovered, even though I still need to take daily medication to remain stable. I wrote about stigma…..
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