I intend to use my own life experience as a bit of a field study for anyone following this blog. I do hope it can be a useful resource for anyone whose life has been touched in some way by mental illness. I also hope that in time it can become a forum for people to share their ideas and insights as well.
The title of this blog is a slight play on words of a book called Meditations in an Emergency by the post-second world war New York poet, Frank O'Hara. The photo below is of me as a sixteen year-old mugging for the camera from the top of the World Trade Center in 1998. I look forward to explaining its significance in coming posts.
