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