Mental Health in a Cup

18/06/2023

Friend of Mental Health in a cup popped in for a chat, catch up and sharing a tune or two 😇😄☺️👏.

06/06/2023

I am so very blessed to be able to enjoy and work with such great members of the of

This is what real really is about.
Direct, connect, share, encourage and help people who are in need. 😘

31/03/2023

Today, I would like to share with the cafe friends our loving friends.
I was once over heard a young woman said, "I cannot do friendship find a partner". ...

🤔 Just thinking myself. If one cannot do friendship. How can you do relationship?? 🙄
💕 Relationship constantly needs work and contribution from both sides.
Most solid relationships grows and flourish brighter starts with good lasting friendships... ❤️

However, be selective 😉... Sometimes it is good and positive when some friendships move on away from you. It just means, either side have grown.

22/11/2022

Thank you Michael for this lovely poem. Of life, joy, love and experiences along your journey. This collective piece was from his musicians friends. ❤️

07/07/2022

Old friends revisits with warmest of welcomes and hugs. . Supporting locals and friends of the cafe from near and messages from afar is most appreciated..8 years, we have seen some go and some grown. Some have left us for ever but always in our thoughts and heart
🌳This week have been challenging but well managed. BIG thank you to the young man who helped to call the emergency for a regular visitor in need. .. and all the people present whom have remain calm and understand.

The cafe and us have been supporting many locals from the day it have open. A community is as good as you invest into 💞

01/05/2022

For those who are in desperate support and talk, please do call either Solidarity in crisis helpline ( Lambeth or Lewisham residents).
Wandsworth mental health crisis line if you are a Wandsworth resident. ❤️

17/02/2022

Everyone came, seen and enjoyed the works from our local community group. 💕 It did definitely brighten up the place and people's faces.. 🥰☺️ Our work should be see, appreciate and enjoy by all.
Can you see the characters of the local people through their works?? 💝

01/02/2022

Come, see, like and share Mental health in a cup!! Here we talk, laugh and support.
We are here for the community 💓

The coffee lovers cafe envolment and collaboration with and some is back. We welcome everyone to come and enjoy the works of some local members and . We are always here to improve the areas well being, connection and many more. Please do come see.

02/12/2021

How it's like when your parent have dementia. It was since 2016 that we realized he became forgetful and starts to hallucinate during the nights. Over time he starts to believe these hallucinations are real. Along with his many falls, the GP wanted to run a test on his brain. He was diagnosed with dementia in July 2018.
He have turned 84 on 21st November 💕
My wonderful dad was an architecture, loves music and writes his own music. It was only recently that I knew he plays the guitar 🤣 He is multi skilled due to his love for learning and he reads the newspaper every day until his eye sight was effected by his diebetes in 2019. Begining 2019 - end of 2020 He cannot live alone, walk unsupervised or unattended a anymore. His conversation are scramble and inconsistent. Beginning 2021 to the end of this year, he needs around the clock care. Sleeps 70% of the day and very little walking.
By supporting others through Mental Health in a Cup at 268 Wandsworth Road SW8, I was talking and listening to many who supporting and supported their love ones. I echo their views and cannot agrees more that ALL the professionals and GP never came close to the help and information we share with people who are going through and looking after dementia.
It is so comforting and assuring to get these first hand experiences, information, tips and awareness to help me with my role.
Being keeping your love ones active and talks to them is vital to their wellness. Making sure they feel you understand what they are going through helps them feels this. What is in their mind and thinking is real to them therefore I don't try to make him think differently.
His memories are jumbled from different time line in his life and his hallucinations are daily. I share his thoughts and conversations as if I am at the time and assuring him that I will take care of his worries and concerns about the matters that he hallucinated.
It is not uncommon that people with dementia remembers their most rememberable times only and what they feel it is important for them.

For me, I am very blessed to have supportive children and partner who looks after my well being. They would jump in when they can to help me at work and creat a playful distraction for their grandad when he is distressed.
It is very draining mentally and emotionally as it is hard to see someone slips so fast in such a short period of time.
Keeping in contact with those who are carers to their love ones, supporting each other and keep each other motivated helps ❤️ make Time to catch up and take time off is just a important for carers.

19/10/2021

Pomegranate is the fruitfulness of Autumn 💕❤️ and Water is life. Fill your heart and mind with all goodness and wonderful experiences. Sadness and worries will fill us from time to time in our life time. It's ok, because without one or the other. We won't know the good or the bad.... Share your experiences ... ☀️ the good, the bad and the ugly 😜

Picture from my wonderful friend; Omar