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As I sit here, in the early hours of the morning, reflecting on my life over the last five years I am drawn to the last moment I spent with Alice. The last time I Read more…
Hello everyone, and welcome to my website. My name is Andrew Gordon and I hail from Basildon in Essex!
Having spent approaching a decade as an elected member of Basildon Borough Council as well as working with and in the mental health system on a variety of projects, I have developed a passion for improving the quality of peoples lives primarly though improving societies mental health and wellbeing.
My work often focuses on recovery and hope based interventions, I also am a strong advocate for the empowerment of patient leaders. As a councillor, I was one of the first to take up Local Authorities Mental Health Challenge as a mental health champion and am proud to open about my lived experience of mental illness.
In my spare time I am an online gamer, baker and casual photographer, I also build my own computers – as a huge techie I also feel technology is opening up new frontiers for society and both the NHS and Local Government need to embrace this. I also am a keen volunteer spending some of my weekend on the local SOS bus.
If you want to read a bit more about me you can find out even more here.
As I sit here, in the early hours of the morning, reflecting on my life over the last five years I am drawn to the last moment I spent with Alice. The last time I Read more…
My birthday is on September the 24th, just before Alice’s which is October 5th. Alice and I were boyfriend and girlfriend and in 2015 for our 23rd birthday’s, we were planning to do a double Read more…
Approaching four years ago, my life changed forever. I lost Alice, she died suddenly and in traumatic circumstances. The last time I saw Alice we hugged told each other how much we loved each other; Read more…
Trauma is a complicated thing, one word that can conjure up so many different facets and contexts. I think it is fair to say there is no one definitive ‘traumatic experience’ as each individual will Read more…
In over a decade in and out of mental health services, I have been asked am I suicidal more times than I care to count and I always find it a very interesting question to Read more…
I always like to think I come across as a confident, outgoing and extroverted person. As a local politician, I can interact with hundreds of people over the course of a week with a big Read more…