Yard Act’s James Smith has shared a poem, commissioned by mental health charity Mind to coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week this week.
The short piece was created in collaboration with a woman named Mel, who lives with bulimia, in order to tell her story.“I was asked by Mind to collaborate with one of their clients to write a poem for Mental Health Awareness week”, he says. “I’ve worked with Mind in the past here in Leeds fundraising so I was honoured they’d considered me.
Mind partnered me with a young woman called Mel, who lives with an eating disorder – more specifically bulimia – and when we first met on Zoom, I instantly clicked with her”.“Myself and Mel talked for an hour or so about her life and the condition she lives with”, he goes on. “We shared similar views on a lot of things and I found her to be an incredibly grounded, intelligent and astute young person, who genuinely gave me hope for the future”.“I took great care when writing this to do justice to Mel’s story.
She had a great ‘no holds barred’ approach to talking about bulimia and what she has to go through each day living with her eating disorder.
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