I Can't Believe It

I've won an award. Okay, so it's only a virtual award, but it still means a great deal to me. I was joint winner of the Best Mood Disorder Blog in the Mental Nurse TWIM Awards.

The Tackling the Mental Health Minefield posts were responsible for me being nominated and while they have been difficult to write (and still are because there are several more to come) I felt that it was important that the mental health system needed to be described from a patient's point of view.

Mr Smiley encouraged me when I first started writing this blog, and when I told him that I was thinking of writing a series of posts about my experience of being in hospital, he thought that it was a great idea. He has always encouraged me to write about my experiences and much of my lecture on a patient's experience of psychotherapy is based on a series of emails that I wrote to him over the period of that therapy. I'm sure he will be very happy that his encouragement has resulted in this recognition.