Author: John Durrant

Hi everyone todays blog I’m going to talk to you about how I started my road to recovery and what I’ve learned through this journey of recovery. When I became ill in 2017 I had to wait to get an appointment to see some one form the local mental health team. After I had this…
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Hey everyone I hope your all well today I’m going to talk to you about positive things and my plans for the new year. I hope you’ve all had a good Christmas and and have a fantastic new year. This year I’m setting myself a target of speaking at 5 events on mental health and…
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So I’m going to talk to about the Christmas coming up, how I feel about Christmas and how I cope with the festivities alongside my mental health. As a child I think I had good Christmas times. I don’t remember having a bad one but when I started to grow up and my sister didn’t…
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Hey everyone it’s been a long time but I just had to take some ‘me time’ and get myself back on the right track. Now I’m going to write about this new project I’m involved in with Access Community Trust. I was just looking through Twitter and Facebook when saw this picture. I knew the…
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I’m going to talk about the voices in my head that talk I can remember hearing from about the age of 12. I thought they were calling my name. I would be sitting in another room to where my mum and sister would be, maybe not even on the same floor, doing something and then…
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Hello everyone at the Restoration Trust. I’m going to tell you about the project I’m currently involved in at Burgh Castle that I attend every other Tuesday. The group is called the Burgh Castle Almanac group. We meet up in the village hall at Burgh Castle and walk up to the castle where we take…
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From an early age, the majority of boys are pressured by society, family or peers to grow up fast and be men, even before their teenaged years. Being told they can’t play with dolls or dress up in women’s clothes amongst other things that can be classed as gender stereotyping. Also being taught that they…
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So on the day off my relapse, i dont remember alot of it to be fair, but my partner got me a out of hours doctors appointment. We arrive at the surgery,and about ten minutes later we get called through, I took one look at him and said to my partner this isn’t going to…
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Hi Everyone, i hope you enjoyed my first blog, please leave any comments and i will try to answer all that i can. I would like to talk about peoples reactions to mental health. I will focus on my experiences and you can let us all know about yours,When i had my relapse last year,…
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