'Drama saved my life': how performing can help mental health problems

May Contain Nuts is an award-winning theatre company of people with experience of mental ill health

Kerry Shadbolt feared for her life as she approached the end of two years of drama therapy, provided by the NHS to help her manage her emotionally unstable personality disorder. Shadbolt, 47, had formed close friendships within her group and it was a place where she felt she could be herself. It was also sometimes the only thing she could leave her house for.

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Continue reading... April 25, 2018 at 01:58PM