LE SOLEIL DE WELLINGTONTHE WELLINGTON SUN

Feb, 2011Vol.2, Issue 4

Daniel Ménard

Lorraine Couture

Pierre Filion

Les ImpatientsMardi le 15 février aura lieu un mini vernissage à 14h à la mezza-nine et au rez-de-chaussé.

Les ImpatientsA vernissage will be held at 2 PM at the mezzanine and on the main floor Tuesday February 15th.

Shorten Gagnon

Winter campFebruary 23rd, 24th, 25th

Cost of activity: $100.

The winter camp is taking a recov-ery oriented approach which pro-motes autonomy, independence and self-management. We would like all campers to take full responsibil-ity (with our support) for their trip.

Winter camp will take place at Perceneige in Lachute, Québec. We will all meet at Douglas Hall at 8:30am to leave around 9:00am. The cost for camp is $100.00 per person. This includes lodging, all meals and winter activities.

**THE WINTER CAMP IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ADMINIS-TERING MEDICATIONS**Individuals must be stable for the past 6 months.

New applicants will be interviewed and accepted if they demonstrate that they can meet these criteria. We will interview new applicants until the five (5) spaces are filled.

** Interviews will be on a first come first serve basis.**

***The deadline for applications is January 28th, 2011***

If you have any questions/concerns, please call 514-761-6131 ext. 2943

If this is your first time at camp we will call you as soon as we receive your application to set up a time for your interview. (20-30mins if needed) The interviews will take place on Feb. 9th and 10th 2011 at Wellington Center with Frances Skerritt.

First come firt serve. Pick up the application at reception

Thanks and great camping!

Yasmeena Alavi

Camp d’hiversLe 23, 24, et 25 février

Coût de l’activité : 100$.

Le camp d’hiver a adopté une approche axée sur le ré-tablissement, qui favorise l’autonomie, l’indépendance et l’autogestion. Nous aimerions que tous les campeurs assument pleine-ment la responsabilité (avec notre soutien) de leur voy-age.

Le camp d’hiver va être au Perce-neige à Lachute, Qué-bec. Le départ se fait à Douglas Hall à 8h30 pour partir à 9h00. Le coût du camp est $100.00 par personne. Cela inclus l’hébergement, tous les repas et les activités.

**LE CAMP D’HIVER N’EST PAS RESPONSABLE POURL’ADMINISTRATION DES MÉDICAMENTS**

Les personnes doivent être stables depuis au moins 6 mois.

Les nouveau candidat intéressées doivent passer une entrevue et seront acceptées s’il démontre être capable de satisfaire les critères. Nous allons rencontrer les gens jusqu’à ce que les 5 places disponibles soient comblées.

***Les entrevues se feront sur une base de premier ar-rivé premier servie. ***

***Les applications doivent nous parvenir avant le 28 janvier 2011***

Si vous avez des questions/commentaires, vous pouvez appeler 514-761-6131 ext. 2943.

Si vous appliquez pour la première fois nous vous télé-phonerons aussitôt que nous recevrons votre application pour fixer une heure de rendez-vous pour l’entrevue. (20 à 30 minutes sont nécessaires) Les entrevues se dérouleront les 9 et 10 février 2011 au Centre Welling-ton avec Frances Skerritt.

Premier arrivé, premier servi. Ramassez votre ap-plication à la réception.

Merci et bon camping!

DDRRIIINNNG!Auto portrait de Bertrand Poupart

Bonjour Centre Wellington !Bertrand Poupart - comment puis-je vous aider?!-oui, un moment je vous pris.-Alors, comment trouvez-vous la chaleur de ma voix?!-Vous vous demandez sûrement quel était cette voix (…) charmante que vous avez le plaisir d’entendre soit au téléphone soit à l’intercom?-Et bien et bien me voici, me voilà, Bertrand Poupart pour vous servir.Maintenant commisaire d’art à la Boutique du Centre Wellington.

Merci Alain pour tenir le journal.

Cueillette d’idéesLe Comité de Soutien pour l’échange des idées pour le développement de l’Espace 107 (rez-de-chaussé). Vous avez des idées pour utiliser et développer ce bel espace?

Apportez par écrit vos propositions ou présentez-vous à la première rencontre jeudi le 3 février de 14h à 16h. Rendez-vous au bureau de Nicole Gay, 2e étage. La deuxième rencontre se fera le 14 février de 14h à 16h. Il y aura une rencontre publique informé par Barry Craigo pour tous le 17 février de midi à 13h à la cafétéria du centre Wellington.

Ideas gatheringThe Comity to Sustain the exchange of ideas for the development of the available space 107 (main floor).

Do you have ideas to use and develop this beautiful space?

If so, please bring your written ideas or be present to the first meeting thursday February 3rd from 2 to 4 PM. Meeting in Nicole Gay’s office, 2nd floor. The second meeting will be held on February 14 from 2 to 4 PM. There will be a public meeting informed by Barry Craigo open to all on February 17th from twelve to 1 PM at the cafeteria of the Wellington Center.

Né le11 juillet 1959 en France, (à Creil près de Paris)Laurent De Backer a vécu en Provence de 1967 à 1986 et a com-mencé à peindre dès 1974. En 1986, il s’installe à Montréal, où il se con-sacre entièrement à la création.

«Laurent De Backer travaille à cha-cun de ses tableaux dans ce qu’il représente d’unique comme image et comme objet, alliant techniques anciennes et médiums contempo-rains, animé par un souci contant d’assurer la pérennité de l’œuvre.» M.C.

Contact dayat CAMO (Comité d’adaptation de la main-d’œuvre)Thursday April 2011 from 12 to 7 PMHighlights:- For handicapped persons.- A day that allows to meet employers sensitized to mental health.- Opportunity to access to a job (full time, part time, summer or training)There will be conferences, a workshop on the resume and the interview, a seminar and job space.

For more info, www.camo.qc.ca 514-522-3310 or 1888-522-3310. The activity is free.

Journée Contactau CAMO (Comité d’adaptation de la main-d’œuvre)

Jeudi le 7 avril 2011 de 12h00 à 19h00

À surveiller :- Pour les personnes handicapées- Une journée qui permet de rencontrer des employeurs sensibilisés à la santé mentale- Opportunité d’accéder à un emploi (temps plein, temps partiel, emplois d’été ou stages)

Il y aura des conférences, un atelier sur le CV et l’entrevue, un espace formation et d’emploi.

Pour plus de détails, www.camo.qc.ca 514-522-3310 ou 1888-522-3310.

L’activité est gratuite.

Mental healthA testimony In mental health, from denial to acceptation, days can pass, weeks, months, even years. In 2007, I made two visits in Burgess, twenty one days each, approved by the Administrative Court over medical recommendation. I will not mention the exact situations, psychotics, habits, that led me to the Douglas!

My first bipolarity diagnosis has been established by three doctors at the St-Hyacinthe hospital in 2002.The Administrative Court, under my ex girlfriend’s advice, my sister and my brother in law supported the in-ternment prescribed by the judge.

I was embittered. On the walls of the department, I saw pieces of writ-ing that did not exist and that was there for my vision, my delirium, my psychosis. I showed nicely to the psychiatry department, I am cheer-ful naturally, but really, I was bitter even though something had overpass my mind. My habit have had me penetrate an abnormal hell, attractive, scary and worrying all together. A superman going through centuries, infinitely small, infinitely tall!

The pretzel that almost stifled Georges W Bush, it was my fact in the night awakened in a state of mania. The day after, he suffocated for real. In-somniac at night, I was tracking down Ben Laden. I have gotten the right to a thousand spell, visual and sonic hallucinations, burst of laugh, near dementia.

I have remained in a state of ma-nia and psychosis during the whole sojourn. However, it is clear that if I did not admit the bipolar diagnosis, I would not get out of that hospital. I decided to accept the medication but I was playing their game. I started to take lithium and little by little, I

have got the right to one or two hour exits, alone and free. Cinema, walk and finally the psychiatrist decided to enlarge me.

My girl friend had decided that our couple life was over. I left Monteregie to return live in Montreal. My son that was affected of cancer as he lived with his mother in France and with us since two years stayed with her until I could settle conveniently in Montreal.

Two month later we settled in the Cote des Neiges neighbor, with a health follow up at the Ste Justine hospital. Yet, my remission did not last and the cancer came back. A hellish struggle, again chemotherapy, other surgeries; in all in France and in Canada, near fifteen surgical interventions and as much chemotherapies.

We say that hope makes living! And we hoped. We hoped until the end! Meanwhile, a support for her beloved child, her mother had come from France and she lived with us. We had reconstruct, in a way, the family nucleus, from before her departure for France with our son and our divorce.

We had to be strong, bipolarity was far from my concerns, but I was following the medication. And every day almost we went to Ste Justine, for testing, examining, consultations, radio, IRM, scanner, chemotherapy, psychological assistance, blood test and heavy long hours of waiting in the corridors, until the day where he entered definitely to the hospital.

It was inconceivable for me to look for a job in these conditions. But when her mother arrived from France to help him, the Saco witch I was part of as an international volunteer counselor was suggesting me to give, because of my experience on the field, a lesson of in-tercultural cooperation and level 1 and 2 of Spanish class, witch allowed me to deepen my Spanish talk. Moreover, I obtained a college study attestation

(AEC). These few hours of prepara-tion and study allowed me to forget the scariness from witch I was facing: sickness... and death.

His sickness and mine. After six years of a titanic fight against cancer, he yielded one night of full moon. Numb, emptied, sensing nothing, it is only two months later that I snivel regularly all the time. The fall to hell remained four years with ups and downs, alcohol and so-berness, and finally the Douglas twice and a psychiatric and psychological follow up that still stand today.

I would not say that I am completely restored. But I progress. I am part of the impatients workshop, I expose, I write and with my IPS coach from the Wellington Center, Martine Clabrese, we look for a job, I am involved, I participate, I meet people, I keep in touch with friends and family. Not to forget that I am second president of the Beneficiary Comity of the Doug-las Hospital. The files over witch we deal with hold much a social involve-ment beside the patients, residents and beneficiaries of the Douglas Hospital and its affiliations as for example the Wellington Center.

Finally, mental health, it heals itself, it cultivate itself. For me, it relieves me.

Jancy BoltéEnglish translation: Alain Daigneault