What is ill and what is well? Can you be both at once and does the process of being observed change the status?
Sectioned at her peak, Poppy spiralled as she tried to come to terms with what happened and found herself in an ever enclosing web of interventions. Where physical health care focuses on recovery and independence, a diagnosis of serious mental health is considered a condition for life, one that must be managed, monitored and medicated, but when the illness is born from trauma, surely true recovery is possible.
The “21st Century Sylvia Plath” (Neurodiverse Reviews 2023), Poppy takes you on her journey through than seven involuntary stays in mental words, from elation to despair, run-ins with the law and visitations from angels, her autistic, ADHD, bi-polar mind has taken her everywhere and the poetry that she wrote at peak distress brings the story to life.
Following critical acclaim with her debut show SECTIONED, Poppy returns to question, do the services really help?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cot6lFvq8K0&t=56s
Reviews
21st Century Sylvia Plath
- Neurodiverse Reviews, ★★★★★
A raw and impassioned account of one woman’s mental health recovery, poetically delivered.
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Content Warnings:
Strong Language References to Drug/Alcohol Misuse References to Mental Illness References to Suicide/Self Harm