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July 2006 – “littleboylost”

My first book, written about my experiences of sexual abuse, mental health issues and my sexuality, and my attempt to recover and move on from over ten years of mental illness and drug treatment

www.lulu.com/adampick

www.littleboylostlive.com

July 2006 – “Musings of a madman”

My second book focusing on using my experience s of the mental health system and recovery to try and reach out to those considering suicide and show them that life is not hopeless and there is a point to everything.

www.lulu.com/adampick

www.littleboylostlive.com

November 2005 –Jan 2007 –

Volunteer Editor of Large Magazine, Llgbc

Also in the literary vein, I have had the superb opportunity to edit the lesbian gay and bisexual experience "large" magazine, since late November 2005. That was two issues worth, and it was a lot of fun, and served to impregnate the desire to write and be around writers all the more. This was a huge step towards me carrying on with writing, and I owe the LLGBC, a great deal of thanks for that.

December 2006 – May 2007

Volunteer Website administrator, Llgbc.com

video Nation suicide Prevention video

Back in march, 2006 i did a short video for videonation, part of the bbc, and their website, about mental health issues, suicidal feelings, and recover, and its available to watch if you have real player, by following this link directly to it:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/videonation/archive/a_f/adam_holdon.shtml

gimmie 90 campaign and meeting sir Steven Redgrave

a few years ago i wrote a peice for the "Lamppost"the leicester mental health publication published by LAMP in leicester. it was about my meeting with sir steven redgrave and the huge impact on me. its fun, light reading with pictures of the two of us.... have a look here, follow this link:
http://www.lampdirect.org.uk/news/newsletters/LP_autumn2003.asp#quake

Telling Lives Radio Leicester Radio appearance

also i am really passionate about people having the human rights to live in comfort and free from fear, no matter the colour of their skin, race, religion, or sexuality. i have recently been on BBC Radio leicester to tell my own story of mental health and recovery in support of leicester pride, and the bbc telling Lives project - if you have downloaded realplayer
(you can get he realplayer basic for free - the others you have to pay for)
you can listen in now if you choose this link:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/leicester/realmedia/2006/06/pride_and_prejudice_adam.ram

Too Write Articles

Also i am a member of toowrite.com, a site whereyou could submit real life stories etc, but you can no longer submit stuff , but you can check out my work. my login is littleboylost, and it features expereinces which did not get into the book... i decided to keep these out, but if you want to take a look at these, the most distrubing things that happened to me, you can visit me, at this link:
http//www.toowrite.com/TorturedShell

http/www.toowrite.com/Littleboylost

having posted those, i recieved quite a lot of positve feedback on my ability as a writer which helped me through some toughold months. if you would like to see what othet TooWrite.com authors felt, Click Below:

TooWrite Authors Feedback On the Work Of Adam Pick

Physke. Org Articles

And i have written an article on the things that happened to me at pyske.org, a place where folk talk about mental health issues, and where service users talk about their self harm. I wrote about why i harmed in the past, and why i occasionally still do. to access this article follow this link:
http://psyke.org/personal/l/littleboylost/

please note: There is a picture section, which i suggest you stay away from as its quite horrific, pictures of peoples self harm. if you think it may help you understand others and yourself, then have a look, but if you are easily upset please dont. i didnt look at it, or add stuff to the pics because its too much for me. so be aware.... i care about folk, and dont want anyone upset through looking at links they followed from here.

Leicester Mercury book launch Peice

Recently the Leicester Mercuryput a vershort peice in to tell folk aout my laaunch and where it was, wha timeetc. if ou want to take a look at this small peice, feel free. i am goin to ask thm for an interview after the launch, as they have done quite a lot of mental health based interviews in my area the past few years. so here it is, click below

Leicester Mercury Official Book Launch Peice

Madnotbad Articles

Also i have written a few articles for madnotbad.co.uk, a fANTASTIC support website with a forum for those suffering from any type of mental illness, there is an art section, opinion section poetry,prose, and much more. on the mnb forum, you can find a huge, huge suppporting community. i recomend it to anyone who feels lost and in need of a a freind.

"The Real Adam"
http://www.madnotbad.co.uk/experiences/exp47_realadam.htm
"I want To Recover"
http://www.madnotbad.co.uk/experiences/exp52_recover.htm
"Let Me Sleep"
http://www.madnotbad.co.uk/experiences/exp36_letmesleep

Leicester sound book interview

On Tuesday 6th of June, 2006 i was on Radio Leicester sound, talking about mental health and my book, and how i hoped it would help others suffering with sever suicidal tendencies, depression, voice hears and whatnot to have hope that things could get better - because i know that things can get better, even when, like now situations seem to dictate otherwise.... i don't have a link for that yet, but some of you may have tuned in yesterday, and heard it.... if so,, i would love to hear from you....

November 2005 - Nanwrimo 2005

last november, i took part in an event called NanoWrimo, the goal of which was to write a 50,000 world novel, or at least the beginnings of one, in 30 days.it started from the 1st to the 30th of november, and i am very happy to say that i enjoyed every minuite of it, it was a superb thing to be involved in, and there was a real sense of achievement once i had completed the task. im going to have another go this year, maybe producing something i can get into print. i have used bits of last years manuscrpt in other things, but we will see what happens this november.

if you wanna take a look at the site, follow this link:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/

or this one to have a look at my profile and read my novel excerpt from last year:

http://www.nanowrimo.org/userinfo.php?uid=99731