1st Person is a magazine devoted to giving accounts, opinion and artwork from the perspectives of people who have had mental health conditions, rather than from the professional point of view.

Important note: work here may not be reproduced in any form without the permission of the writer

I’ve decided to stop running 1st Person due to my own current poor mental health and would like to thank everybody who has contributed over the years, I plan to keep this site up indefinitely as a resource and testament to the wonderful accounts, opinion, poetry and artwork submitted.

ARTICLES:

• Touch 
  An account of asperger’s syndrome and the trials of getting an accurate diagnosis
• Why did I do it? 
• Open Minds and Respect 
• Surgeon General presents strategy to prevent suicide 
• Something is wrong with my child 
• Running Scared
• Looking through a window 
• Overcoming schizophrenia
• Depression: Cancer of the soul 
• Inarticulate gestures
• Running well
• I do not know what is wrong with me
• Nine years after hospital
• Head Injury account
• The curse of having a mental illness
• Self injury account
• Bipolar story
• Waiting and wondering
• Tribute to Autistic son 
• Traumatic brain injury
• Depression
• Tired
• Bipolar Rapid cycling
• LSAT and Attention Deficit Disorder
  • LSAT and Attention Deficit Disorder
    A request for help by someone who’s test results were distorted through untreated ADD
  • update
    Steve Wozniak of Apple offers to fund lawsuit!
• Imagine
  Account of Agoraphobia
• Depression account
• Cracking up
  A psychotic experience at university.
• Encouragement
• My Memoirs a battle with depression 
• Self injury and depression account by a young person
• My story
  Experience of a first breakdown.
  
• ‘Arousal’ depression
• Hiding
• Recurring anxiety
• My account of bipolar disorder 
• I am a survivor!
• Mirror my mother’s mind
• Depression account
• Problems Account of depression since childhood
• Depressed beyond hope
• To reach others like me
• Bipolar II
  • My struggle with bipolar II
  • Responding to “My Struggle With Bipolar II”
  • Another response to “My struggle with Bipolar II”
• Pretty…but a little thin
• Biplolar account
• inspirational stories
  Writing a book and looking for a dialogue with anyone who has something to say especially those who can share hope with others
• Rapid Cycling Bipolar and EDNOS (anorexia)
• Pain
• Bipolar for life
• Bipolar II mood disorder – restored!
• Schizo – Affective Account
• Schizophrenia, Schizo-Affective and Depression
• Tired
• The Bomb / Shank
  Two pieces about the claustrophobic, heavy atmosphere of prison life.
• A thought of suicide everyday
  • A thought of suicide everyday
  • Responding to a thought of suicide everyday
• Hostel life
  • the client’s view
  • the staff’s view
  • Looking backTwo views of hostel life from both sides of the staff/client divide.
    
• Schizophrenia account
• The cockroaches
• The Red House 
  An account of full-time psychotherapy experiences.
• Colder weather 
  A teenagers story of clinical depression.
• Bipolar account
• An account of mania
• Bipolar account
• Who am I?
• Relative Diagnosed with Bipolar disorder
• A positive experience of ECT
• Life has problems
• Bipolar story
• Diagnosis
  Account of being high
• No diagnosis
• Bipolar disorder
  Account of a suicide attempt
• Essence…
• The music of madness – a book about a young, talented concert flutist and her harrowing journey from sanity into madness and back again
• Looking For Love In All the Wrong Faces
  Confessions of a Codependent On the Road to Recovery
  
• Account of depression by a young person
• My psychiatric life story
• Something happened to me
• Looking from the inside
  Living with manic depression
  
• “The Manic-Depression twins”
• The Misadventures of Bipolar II
• In the Comfort of the darkness
  Account of clinical depression
• Bipolar account
  • Bipolar account
    
  • Response to Bipolar account
• My bipolar life
  • My bipolar life
  • Response to Anon
  • Another response to Anon
• Lessons learned
• Poetry and healing 
  How writing can help, with special reference to Bulimia.
• My heart goes out to you
• I don’t know what is wrong with me
• Daughter’s account
• The Shamans view of Schizophrenia
• Bipolar 2 account
• The Downward Spiral
• A bipolar, bulimia and abuse survivor
• To heal the broken hearted
• Mental Illness: In The Eye of The Beholder?
• So confused
• For all others…
• Some things that helped me with Bipolar
• At the end of my rope
  How a self help course finally helped someone get over trauma.
• His ever changing moods
• Morse code
  • Morse code
  • The parent’s storyA true-life account written in a fictional style about a suicide attempt, and the mother’s side of the story.
• The conspiracy
• Response to the Conspiracy
• In the blink of an eye
• A Lonely Star Amidst A Blackened Sky – Deneille’s Story
• Seclusion
• This is not me 
• Learning how to survive with my manic-depression
  
  
  
  
  
• Why isn’t mental illness talked about? 
• Respose to “Why isn’t mental illness talked about?”
• Stereotyping mental illness
• Q & A for book “Taking the bully by the horns”
• Living with those whop do not know
• Autism: Breaking the Silence
  Account of a new treatment for autism
• Protecting the 1% who need therapy
  A piece about a contreversial therapy for autism
• Depression
  • Hell on earth
  • Response to Hell on earth
• You deserve to work!
  A look at mental health employment in the U.S.
• The silent plague
• On Depression
• The Reality of Suicidal Thoughts
• Better than LSD?
  What is therapy like?
• What is “schizophrenia”?
• Medical Power
• Therapy and Christianity : friends or foes
• Feelings on schizophrenia
• Media representations of mental health
• Control patterns
  Stress-reducing behaviours
• A piece on depression
• In a fast society slow emotions become extinct. A thinking mind cannot feel.
• New age belief, millennial angst and the denial of the other
• Religion and Morality – one person’s perspective
• The most important question
• Real guilt
  A piece about guilt
• Rocking the gods
  Rock stars, and their place in our minds.
• What about schizophrenia?
  Schizophrenia as a drug. 
• Electric poetry
• Human poetry
• More poetry
• Yet more poetry
• Poetry four
• Prison Poetry
• Poetry five
• Poetry six
• Poetry by Janet I. Buck
• Poetry eight
• Poetry nine
• Poetry ten
• Poetry eleven
• Poetry be J Kevin Wolfe
• More poetry from Kevin Wolfe 
• Job Seeker’s Psychosis
• Poetry twelve
• Poetry by J. Bolton
• Poetry Fourteen
• Poetry by George Samson
• Poetry Sixteen
• Poetry Seventeen
• Poetry Eighteen
• Poetry by Cynthia Wood
• Jaclyn’s poetry
• Poetry by Damon Whitsell
• Poetry by Geoff Allen
• Poetry nineteen
• Poetry by Bob Houlston
• Poetry by Mara McWilliams
• Parchman Farm Jesus by George Cuhlane
• Poetry twenty
• Poetry twenty one
• Poetry twenty two
• Poetry twenty three
• Poetry twenty four
• Poetry by Abigail Liu
• Potery by Kristen O’Reilly 
• Mental health advocy newspaper seeking mental health consumer to edit many of the articles they receive for publication
• Prayers from the heart
• Small pieces
• Anagrams