CWU Conference A Mental Health Recovery Of 35 Years

With Conference taking place during this year's Mental Health Week, and in recognising the need to reject the assumptions of ignorance around mental health, and the stigma that still faces those with mental health illness; CWU's Kate Hudson National Officer for Education, Equality and Diversity, introduced a special guest speaker with his presentation on his life as a person with schizophrenia.

 

Andrew Voyce spoke of his diagnosis of Schizophrenia, his fall from university to homelessness and prison to an Open University Degree, and now living a full and valuable life, of which he is very proud. His support for mental health sufferers culminated in him working as a support worker and in fact as a mental health nurse working in a mental health hospital.

 

His presentation of his remarkable life is open and honest and an example of a life's journey from illness to recovery and successfully living with his mental health condition:

 

Source: CWU