After seven years of serious mental illness, 8 hospital admissions, too many medication changes to count, and many, many different types of therapy attempted, here is a list of my personal tips on mental health self-care.
I wrote this post in response to a journalist who claimed that when she visited a friend in a private psych hospital in Melbourne the facility was akin to the one in the famous Jack Nicholson movie, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest. My personal experience at three different private facilities in Sydney paint a very different story. Read on to find out why.
Ok, so I'm cheating a bit here. This is a list of posts that tell the story of how I crawled my way out of that horrible place Rock Bottom to become a sole parent to my beautiful boy Ned.