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School of Life

10/10/2013

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I did my sermon yesterday at the School of Life.  The event takes place in a church but isn’t based on any religion, it’s just as a great venue where everyone sings and shouts and then you (which was me that day) give your philosophy of life at a pulpit. The hymn’s yesterday were “Crazy” and “Reach Out” by the Four Tops. It’s got such a great atmosphere, everyone is there open and ready for action. Derren Brown does the next sermon on December 4th.  I did my speech after listening to 300 people singing at me so my hair was standing on end.  This is my first try out of the new show based on my book “Sane New World” it’s always interesting and sick-making to wing it.  I haven’t memorized the script yet so I’m roughly getting the ideas across hoping I’m making sense. 

The show is for the 4 in 4, not the 1 in 4 who have mental illness.  It’s for everyone who feels the pressure of just living and getting through the day.  Our brains don’t have the bandwidth for living in the 21st century, evolution didn’t know this was coming and so we can’t really cope. Part of our brain (the cognitive bit) created this glorious technology which was supposed to make life easier and give us spare time. We wouldn’t know spare time if it came and hit us on the head. The emotional part of the brain is stunted, it just didn’t develop so we don’t know how to cope with the continuous flow of bad news.  You open a newspaper and everyone in it is was killed.  It’s like we’re junkies for things that drive us nuts even though we know it drives us nuts.  Our own thinking is what’s driving us mad. The world is the way it is so now we have to learn how to rewire our habits of thinking and find the brakes so we’re not dragged through life by an endless list of emails to answer.  The idea is to become the master not the slave of the mind. 

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kerry-ann Markham
10/10/2013 06:02:31 pm

Hi 5 to you Ruby for bringing awareness to mental health!!! My mum suffers from severe mental health problems. Including paranoid schizophrenia,manic depression and the list goes on. I had the eye opening experience of living with her,and experienced first hand what it was like when she wasn't taking her meds.....well bless her she did not know whether she was coming or going. The experience involved her trying to kill me twice, her emptying the kitchen into the hallway and even walking out of th house naked.... we survived the whole experience which only made our relationship stronger, why because we laugh, we laugh so much we cry and it hurts! This gets us through! I really want to travel the uk and make a real life documentary about this. I want to find others in the same situation and help them. Bring to light how the government need to put money into the mental health system. A system that failed my mum and me on so many occasions. I was given the emergency number to call, if I had any problems. One particular time I feared from my mum's life and my own. I called the number.... no one got back to me for nearly a day. I was locked inside my room with a futon up against my door in fear. I called the police and they said they can only come out if I press charges against my own poorly mum. This is a very short version of events... but this needs to be bought to everyone's attention a weekly show on mental health and how it effects millions of people, the lack of care and right medication and how it also effects the rest of the family. Wow sorry for the length of this but I think your the right person to help maybe bring this idea to light..... not enough people know the fears and dangers of everyday life of mental illness. A mental illness is not just for xmas it's unfortunate my for life. We love your work your fabulous
With lots of happy love and smiles
Kerry-Ann and my daily inspiration my mum xxx

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lily smith
29/10/2013 10:40:43 am

Just read 'Sane New World. Taming the Mind' by Ruby Wax. As I have been travelling through my 76 years of life with the enthusiasm of a gangrenous slug alternating with the impulsiveness of a frenetic flea, I have found the book to be very positive and helpful on my journey. Thanks Ruby for your honesty and integrity and, most of all for your sense of humour which gives me permission to laugh. The ability to help us to laugh is, to quote a cliche, excellent medicine.

Lily Smith -pseudonym of course.

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John Joseph
14/12/2013 03:32:15 am

You have chosen your words well and I endorse your comments.

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