Sunday, June 15, 2014

UK Health Radio Medical News Update - Mental Health - A New Beginning.


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Medical News Update

Mental Health - A New Beginning. 

Recently I have been in contact with a lady called Kate Mottram.  After the report I did a little while back about mental health services in the UK, I was very interested in the book that she is currently writing called Mend the Gap; Katie calls this a memoir with a difference that documents her transformative journey through deep despair to discovering her soul purpose!
She asks. Have you ever been too afraid to say how you REALLY feel for fear of being thought of as mad? Most of us have. Most of us are forced to be untrue to ourselves, by a system that is there to help us be less anxious which actually makes us more anxious, - now THAT is madness! 
I asked Katie what 'Mend the Gap' was all about?
She told me that it was a book with a purpose – a raw, authentic, autobiographical account of breakdown to breakthrough; how she changed from suicidal to eternal optimist in what was an extraordinary transformation. 'Mend the Gap' provides hope to those whose hope may have been negatively impacted by the current mental health system.  One quote that struck a chord with me was:
"You are having what could be diagnosed as an insane experience, but you know, deep down, that it’s actually more real than the façade you are trying to maintain to ‘fit in’ with what society suggests is normal. Are you really the only one, and can you continue to live a lie?"
Mend the Gap documents Katie’s personal journey from struggling to hide deep emotional distress, to being unable to hide it any longer, through to the realisation that hiding it had been the actual madness all along! 
What do you do when a belief you’ve held for years and on which you’ve built your identity is shattered in an instant? Shattered irreparably by an experience so profound that it resolves all of your insecurities and outstanding questions about life, and yet threatens that safe identity? Do you risk your professional security and being labelled as mad? What if you follow the truth in your soul but in doing so, know that this will challenge you to question the very foundations of psychiatric practice. In this topsy turvy world, will you be brave enough to give your heart a voice?
Katie quotes Martin Luther King Jnr
 
  
Katie says I too am 38 years old, and I am afraid about speaking my truth, but I am more afraid of the consequences of not speaking it at all. In ‘Mend the Gap’, I explain through taking you through the dark depths of my internal battle, the secrets, which should not be secret at all, to self- acceptance, creating abundance and becoming the shining soul that we all know deep down that we truly are - if only we dare to believe! 
I am sure like me you will be very eager to know more about this interesting book and I will be bringing you more information in the weeks to come.


Amanda Thomas
UK Health Radio Medical News Update
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Katie Mottram's Kick Start page. 

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