I want to talk about mental health. It is a topic that is on lots of people’s mind at the moment. This is complicated topic that will be navigated in so many different ways over the coming months. Today I am not coping well at all. I want to fix it, but I can’t, and it frustrates me. It all fell apart when I went out to buy food. I’ve had two incidents in my life that I guess can only be described as break downs. The first was as a teenager, and I think was pretty complete, the second was in my late 20s and I was able to understand that I was right at the precipice and therefore got help. How and why I got to these points doesn’t really matter, at least not to me now – shit is always going to hit the fan, learning how to cope is more important to me than why it went a bit wonk in the first place. What these incidents did was make me very aware of my mental health, understand triggers and ways for me to cope with difficult situations. For this I feel pretty lucky.
This is a project about the conversations and thoughts that food, drink and the location of London brings.