In running I have found a reason to be. A reason to get up in the morning and a reson to be hppy - to be a runner... I have searched for this in many places, I did a first year of study for many things, to become something...
Yoga Teacher, Shiatsu Practitioner, Counsellor, T.A. Psychotherapist, Acupuncturist, Artist, nd I attempted to make a Career in Yout Work prior to this all mainly aimed at BEING somethign and to achieve the impossible thing "Overcoming Paranoid Schizophrenia"
I have tried to give up my meds and have found myself becoing as ill as my sister, before she died. She was hit by a car, on leave from hospital and absconding, hitchhiking to London. Since then stress or a combination of factors made me ill and I ws hospitalised for the 7th time, thhis time for 9 months... I was bulimic during this time as on and off thorughout my life, so it ws the battle for the doctors to find an injectable form of antipsychoticc that I would not efuse...
The charity I am running for, Mind, started the process of my being able to live as a member of society where I could live with resonable income - through their suppor in helping me to fill out Disability Living Allowance forms. It is a terrible thing that the government makes it so difficult to achieve DLA. It is also a terrible shame that Mind can't provide this service any more.
This has been all important in my becoming secure bout myself as a voluntary worker in society.
I would also like to run this race in memory of my sister.
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Good luck with raising the money and with your training! I look forward to reading all about it! :)
It sounds like you've found a great cause to support-all the better since you benefited from it! Good luck, and I know you're going to be successful. BTW, that sort of stuff happens here, too. I know someone who lost 6 years of benefits because the caseworker just never told him he was eligible-6 years. He only found out about it when he switched caseworkers and the new person asked him why he never used his benefits..
All the very best!
Warmest regards! ^_^
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