July | 2020 | Mental Health Nursing Special Interest Group

Lacrimosa (CV-19 Quilt Patch)

(By Pauline Ridley for the CV-19 Quilt) My patch shows the opening notes of the Lacrimosa movement of Mozart’s Requiem. Why has that become my symbol of lockdown? A couple of years ago, after a lifetime of moaning about being unable to sing, I decided to take some lessons. I had no plans to sing…

Priory (CV-19 Quilt Patch)

[By Sharon de Goeas for The Covid Quilt project ] When the country went into lockdown on March 23rd, I had the idea that I would take a walk twice a day into the town. It was later announced that people could only take one hour of exercise once per day. In the first week…

What does mental health look like during the Covid-19 Lockdown? A new materialist understanding.

Laetitia Zeeman The understanding that health is more than the absence of disease and instead ‘a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being’ (WHO 2006), has been comprehensively challenged as populations age and patterns of overlapping physical and mental frailty emerge (Matchtfeld 2011). However, when attempting to understand health, we recognise the limitations of…