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We offer an advocacy service, if you are finding your mental health is suffering and not sure where to start to get some support.

We can connect you to your local services

11/06/2024

Understanding the differences between the two.

26/01/2023

Understanding the highs and the lows

13/09/2022

21/08/2022

According to this, I am depressed.

11/05/2022

🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨

As announced in the Queen's Speech, the government will publish draft legislation to reform the Mental Health Act.

Find out what this means and what will happen next 👉 https://bit.ly/37vMPDJ

26/04/2022

📻 🎙️ Tune in to BBC Radio Manchester's breakfast show tomorrow to hear George Charlton talk about the Naloxone Peer Project! Find out more about how George and Achieve Recovery services are saving lives in the community!
Listen live on Tuesday 26 April: https://buff.ly/3vO8m2S

30/03/2022

Researchers from Trinity College Dublin are recruiting a large sample of people who have just started taking a new antidepressant to develop a new tool to estimate a person’s likelihood of benefitting from different treatments.

Find out how you can help here:

https://participate.mqmentalhealth.org/studies/precision-in-psychiatry-study-pips-2/

30/03/2022

25/03/2022

Do you work with older people in Greater Manchester?

A new campaign has launched to raise awareness of the struggles older people have with their mental wellbeing and self-harm.

We need your help to reach and support older people.
Find out more shiningalightonsu***de.org.uk/OlderPeople

25/03/2022

Read the latest news from Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and see our latest events.

06/12/2021

If taking medication is your only way of treating depression, then our book This Is How You Overcome Depression will teach you what else you can do to fight this illness. Visit https://thedepressionproject.info/overcome-depression-book to learn more!

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I don’t even know where to start, my name is Vanessa and this is my story. In 2018 I started to experience panic attacks, flashbacks, severe anxiety which lead to depression. I actually at the time of me becoming ill didn't have an extensive knowledge of Mental Health so I felt completely overwhelmed and alone. I had successful businesses, lovely home and happy healthy children.

Whilst watching the invictis games that year, there was a paramedic who had served in Afgan. She talked about all these things that started to happen to her 10 years after leaving and I burst into tears because I knew that I wasn't a) alone or b) completely “loosing the plot”

So began a very scary, exhausting journey where I relived memories that I had blocked out from my early years. I relived every single assault as if it was happening in the present and it felt like I might never come up for air. It felt like every time I got to the surface to try and get a breath I was hit by another wave. Every morning I woke up, shaking, terrified something bad was going to happen and it physically hurt!

In August 2018 I tried to end my life, I just couldn't see how I was going to survive this! I just wanted it all to stop! I had reached out to a number of services and followed protocol to get some support but after being put on another waiting list, or having to talk about harrowing events in assessments I was just left hanging by my finger tips.

What I want to make clear is that I by no means am trivialising su***de. When you get into that moment where you just can’t, and that voice in your head is saying that it will stop and you can finally feel peace it is not selfish! You do not think about anything else other than ending those feelings, or making that voice stop. I survived!

Another long year of searching, reaching out, referrals and asking for help only to be told I’m on my own, I had lost my house, I was sofa surfing, living out of a bag, and due to panic attacks I had to leave my full time job.

October 2019 after planning my su***de for 10 months, I put my plan into action. I survived!.

This started my recovery journey, I attended hospital voluntarily and I took every single offer of support that was offered to me. I sat down on my bed on the ward, and I was baffled that it had taken such potentially catastrophic events to get the support I had been looking for!

That was when I decided to start the Mental Health Advocacy Hub, to help support other people like myself and I waiting in the system but are still just hanging on by their finger tips.

As I started to reach out to people in various communities, it moved me to tears at how many people who where just in limbo, still facing those feelings, both emotional and physical and just don’t know that there are amazing charities in their areas that are waiting to help and support them.

As I started to put together thoughts of where, I felt I was let down the news broke about a number of su***des both in my acquaintance circles and in the news and I knew that maybe this was the reason I survived!

Because I an tenacious in my message and I will not stop until every single person who has come to me has the right support.

Your brain is the most important organ of you body, when it gets ill, it should be your top priority to get it the help it needs

Love and light

Vanessa

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