Canadian Mental Health Day Today, For Awareness And Fund Raising For Mental Health Organizations, As Wise Birds Of Mental Health Speak Out On Our Issues

Today is the day for mental health consumers and their chance to over come the stigma of mental health by public awareness and very special Canadians speaking out how mental health has afflicted their lives. We our our 6 gold medalist from summer and winter olympics touching all our hearts as she comes forth with Bell Canada promotion to raise money for mental health organizations across Canada. Margrette Trudeau, a past Prime Minister's wife has been in the media today speaking out on her bipolar disorder and of course I am making my blog posting for the occassion. I had so few people around me to help me deal with my schizophrenic issues, what really helped the most was reaching out to the world through my blog. It was and still is a way to show my art and tell my story what has transpired in my past, what is going on in my present life, and my dreams for the future. I two have cried a lot like our olympic champion speaks of and often sleep too much in my depression of isolation. My blog forfills me a great deal but it does not replace the human contact and touch. Being able to interact with my favorite radio station through email helps me roll with the punches as I get to feel part of the morning show trio with my comments on the show, along with Montreal's Queen of radio and interacting through corresponding with her show in the mid morning.

It has been a long hard road for me coming to terms with my visual apparitions/hallucination that I witnessed at different times in my life and still do. I am prone to seeing ghostly type imagines or having religious apparitions as I prefer to deem them. Yes when I was younger I had no medium to relate my experiences, but when I learned how to draw what I see and write about it, I found it a great help. I put my Mum and Dad, when he was alive through a great deal over the years learning how to cope with the wonderful images I can see that others do not, and what to do with it. Yes I had complications with taking medication over the years for the stituation, the long term use of antipsychotic medication led to extra paramidal side effects which made it more hazardous to go up a ladder as a tradesperson working for a boss. When I was up about a fifteen foot ladder plastering a ceiling and the EPSE struck, I figured it was time to pursue my desk job more as an artist and Internet writer to earn a living. I had made a couple of art sales and still dream of making more and doing more art as I establish my art career more and more with the mewdia attention I has achieved thanks to some very special people I have contacted in the Montreal media to promote my plight.

The extra paramidal side effects that I go through are involuntary muscle contractions from my stomach to my mouth, they are harmless when sitting over a computer key board or doing a piece of art, but when I get an attack up a ladder it really sucks and I try not to under take this task too much. Caffine in excessive amounts can induce the EPSE so I have to watch my caffine intake as well. Stress levels when they get excessive can also induce the EPSE on me so I try and not get too stressed out over things these days. I fought really hard at everything I touch upon myself and I am pround of my education level. I took medication and worked for while going to school at night for ten years to become a competant Engineering Technician after having graduated from the Canadian Coast Guard College in Marine Engineering and getting diagnosed with schizophrenia when working on the ships in engineering.

I have done some studies at Concordia University here in Montreal while diagnosed with schizophrenia, took creative writing courses and took a look at theology and religious studies to help me understand more of my schizophrenia through getting a more comprehensive understanding of my religious paritions/hallucinations that I witness. Even in my creative writing with my poetry and all, I have learned and come to a better understanding of some of the things I have written through studying some theology. It helps a bit with being an artist, as in being an iconist with my art or even given me a better understanding of some of things I have drawn through knowing something more indepth about various religious histories. My studies in these subject matters can also be a stimulus for my own writings and art ideas. When I come up with the money I still what to carry on going to school studying these subjects to keep my mind alert and experience my own personal growth with my religious values and artistic ways.

What ever one has for an mental health infliction, like our olympic champion Ms Huges who fought depression, to Margrette Trudeau as a successful public figure with bipolar disorder, to the likes of myself with schizophrenic issues, the three of us have accomplished things disbite our inflictions in mental health, and any body else in Canada or the World for that matter can do the same with sheer determination and a lot of hard work in schooling or physical training as an athlete, or being a successful public figure for different causes that one takes upon themselves. We all can be olympic type champions in mental heath if one puts their best foot forward as the three of us have done.