I'm an award-winning freelance writer specialising in mental health issues. I have been published in publications as diverse as The Guardian, One in Four and HR Magazine, and pseudonymously write a popular blog in this arena. It is for this that I have won a number of awards, including a prestigious trophy from leading mental health charity, Mind. Please ask for details. As someone with a string of psychiatric diagnoses - bipolar disorder and complex post-traumatic stress disorder with psychotic and dissociative features, clinical depression, anxiety and, at one point, borderline personality disorder - I have developed a significant 'service user' expertise on mental illness, psychiatric drugs and psychotherapy. I also write on a number of other topics - concert, restaurant and bar reviews for the greater Belfast area (sometimes on a wider scale); true crime and other criminological matters; science fiction; psychology and psychiatry from a macro perspective; animal welfare; book a