by Quint | Sep 27, 2023 | Animation, Mental health
“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what the storm is all about.” Haruki Murakami “The only thing more exhausting than having a mental illness is pretending like you don’t.” Unknown “You say you’re...
by Quint | Jul 6, 2023 | Healthcare, Mental health
This famous quote from the ‘Proverbs of Hell’ is by poet and artist William Blake. For me it’s an eloquent but slightly ambiguous signpost at the head of a road. It can be seen as a warning against excess and a reminder of the consequences to pushing oneself too far....
by Quint | Jun 9, 2023 | Animation, Mental health
One of the unique powers of animation is that it can help us access the unconscious. Used as a mental health tool, therefore, it can be extremely powerful. The ability of animation to reach deep into that repository of symbols, signs and pre-language perceptions we...
by Quint | May 19, 2023 | Healthcare, Mental health
A personal perspective So I thought I’d write this for (myself) you to tick off what the common reasons for why the consumption of alcohol is a ‘progressive illness’. It’s a belief I very much share, statistically it seems to be true, clinically it’s been my...
by Quint | May 4, 2023 | Mental health
Perhaps because we all regularly experience anger, we feel it’s simple to understand. After all, anger plays a part in our lives from childhood. We see it in the discipline meted out to us by parents and other adults. “Often [during the pandemic], a child was on its...
by Quint | May 4, 2023 | Mental health
The word ‘trauma’ or ‘traumatic’ is often used to describe, jokingly, the slightest upset or inconvenience a person encounters in Life. Everything in life can be described as ‘traumatic’. Or if it was narrowly avoided, could otherwise have resulted in a person feeling...
