Donna
Donna is a mental health nurse who used poetry to support her own mental health recovery. Working with young people, she shares how her own experience of poor mental health helps to inform her work as a mental health nurse.
Name: Donna Muir
Years: 2000s – Present
Donna is a mental health nurse who used poetry to support her own mental health recovery.
Working with young people, she shares how her own experience of poor mental health helps to inform her work as a mental health nurse.
Excerpts:
“I must have written about 50 poems or something like that in that kind of two- or three-year period.”
“It distracted me by thinking about word placement and where to put breaks to make a rhythm and things like that.”
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