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Hi again, Peter!
Just visited your mentalhealthpoetry.org . Very good idea, indeed! I have a personal story for you, Peter. My very old friend (more than 20 years of our
friendship) has so much unhappy fate. From the childhood he had a stomach problems, strong pains etc.
Doctors thought it is a sore, but it doesn't. Several hard medical operations with no result. At last one person (a kind of healer, but with medical education) found it was a problem with aorta, imagine.
One more very-very complex operation in a famous clinic ... And - yes ! No pains in a stomach ... But ...something wrong with Sasha (my friend name) mental health ... Doctor says it was a too strong narcosis. Long story, indeed. And (instead of usual hospitals) my friend spent a lot of time in last years in psychiatrical ones (semi-prison really). But I felt all the time - there is no problem with so-called "mental health" with him. Just another way to perceive the reality.
All of these times he tried to keep writing - diary, a bit strange (from
the usial point of view) stories, like sketches with somу funny pics etc.
To read a terrific stuff in your website I feel that in many cases a creation/writing is the only way for people with "a-mental-health-problems" to communicate with the outer world, to say - hey, am also a thinking, feeling creation ...Like you ...
And that is great for the society' mental health as well. Unfortunately, still no such places in Russian web.
Thanks, Peter!
Sergei
Saturday, March 1, 2008
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Sergei Stafeev,
St. Petersburg, Russia