To another please, ask for help. and tell you through my screen that it’s an easy task. But I will tell you that the sooner you speak up, ompletely consuming you. Reproduced with permission, originally published here. UNITEDIf you were going to write a book about your life, what would be the title? Who would you want to read it? Would you cover anything up? Would you expose an area of your life into the light? I want to lend you a story: ‘The Flight of the Bumblebee’. It’s a story about life with mental illness, but with none of the vocabulary you’d expect.
Using the power of narrative
You’ll read about depression, psychosis, mania Papua New Guinea Email List paranoia, anxiety and you will also read about recovery, finding being, mindfulness, healing, recovery. ‘The Flight of the Bumblebee’ My favourite stories are those that you can relay to a child and the adult reader also finds depth of understanding beyond the literal narrative. Are yours? Well, I hope that ‘The Flight of the Bumblebee’, my story about life with mental illness, does just that. In the last few weeks, I’ve added questions for individuals and book groups at he end of each chapter.
It charts my personal experience
I want to make it easier for you to have CL Lists those ‘mental health conversations’. I find that when I have a metaphor to talk about, those chats are much easier to begin. “Have you read ‘The Flight of the Bumblebee’? Well, you know when Lil gets stuck behind a window but can’t understand why she can’t fly – that’s exactly how I feel. I can’t grasp what I’m dealing with.” A story about life with mental illness The Flight of the Bumblebee was written over a year period prior to and post my diagnosis of Bipolar Disorder.
