Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Andrew Low Shree Mataji Nirmala Devi,the guru of Sahaja Yoga,gave a talk in a public programme on 9 July 1982 in Birmingham,England.It was called “Confusion:the subtle slavery” and Shree Mataji (Mother) says how confused we are in these modern times.You can see this talk on the Internet and it Continue Reading
By Andrew Low Sahaja Yoga meditation, which is free, is definitely something that could be promoted more in mental healthcare, and which psychiatrists and General Practitioners and others like mental health nurses and psychologists could embrace. You can see the article “Sahaja Yoga meditation” on this website. At the moment Continue Reading
By Andrew Low ‘God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear’ is a line that has really helped me. It’s in the novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. I read it in the spring of 1992 when I Continue Reading
By Andrew Low Sahaja Yoga meditation has been a lifeline for me in my mental health problems. I came to Sahaja Yoga after seeing a poster at Selwyn college when I started on the medical course at Cambridge University in 1982. Sahaja Yoga is free, and it is not compulsory. Continue Reading
By Andrew Low I have a diagnosis of schizophrenia and my mental ill health stopped me continuing on the medical course to become a doctor when I was younger. My main symptoms were a vulnerability to the sound of coughing and the noise of traffic, and feelings of guilt over Continue Reading
It’s a tragedy that there still remains just silence. I wish that medical treatment could be hurried forward for my partner’s anger.
Mental health problems have plagued and blighted me since I went to university in 1982. The diagnosis by psychiatrists is that I’m enduring schizophrenia.