Ever played a game called Psychonauts? Probably not, it's tricky to get hold of now, so I hear. But it is magnificent. And about mental health. It makes learning about mental health awesome, in fact.
Raz is a Psychonaut, a boy who can go inside people's minds. Once in their minds, he can sort their emotional baggage (actual baggage- handbags and suitcases), collect the figments of their imagination, and fight off whatever nasty things are in their brain. They're all a mixture of memories, you see, of good things and bad things which happened to them. My favourite is the disco level, inside the mind of a sweet party girl with a dark secret: throughout the whole level there's laughter in the background until you listen harder and realise it's crying...
Anyway. This game is really, really good. Wanna play it? Turns out you can, because we're running a 'Gaming 4 Wellbeing' session on Friday now, where one can explore one's mental health through the great, glorious medium of GAMES. Wanna come? Just send an email to admin@recoveryresourcescharity.co.uk. And then get praticing your l33t skillz.
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