RE-EVALUATING MY ENTIRE LIFE

“Evaluate yourself and your calling worthily enough, and be proud of it.”

Sunday Adelaja

Even if you only really ‘know’ me through, I’m NOT Disordered or via my social media (@aimes_wilson on Instagram and Twitter), then you will likely be aware of the massive mental health relapse I’ve been going through for around a month. What you likely won’t know – because even those who actually ‘know’ me don’t all know! – is that this relapse is the result of a ‘psychotic episode’ that has mainly evolved around me having these two ‘delusional beliefs’ that have massively impacted my safety on far too many occasions and to far too great a degree of severity. In the last three weeks alone, I’ve had to attend my local A&E several times, have ended up in resuscitation, have been sedated, I’ve also even required surgery because my conviction of these beliefs has been so great, powerful, and overwhelming. These instances – and numerous other situations I’ve found myself in recently – have resulted in me engaging in some very difficult conversations with a variety of people, and it was one of these, that has led to this blog post…

5 THOUGHTS IN MY NEW JOB | I’M NOW HEAD OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS FOR TIME TO INSPIRE!!!

“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

Barack Obama

This post truly has been a long time coming, because it really should have been written/published when I actually began my new voluntary role as Head of Marketing and Communications with Time To Inspire, way back in the beginning of May! However, so many other bits of content need to be created around that time – particularly the Cats Protection series of posts (you can read the final post with the links for all the others, here) because they really had to be timed in accordance with getting my brand-new, little kitten; Ruby. Finally finding the time/opportunity to write this blog post, I was filled with the inspiration to talk about all the things I’ve thought about, learnt to deal with, have fortunately experienced, and things I’ve found myself confident enough to feel I can give advice on…