Recovery Code X launches mental health initiative in bid to create awareness of Complex PTSD and reduce suffering during Covid19

After months of hard work and painstaking research, Bedford based community group, Recovery Code X, is pleased to announce the launch of a new mental health initiative aimed at raising awareness of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder across the county and providing self-help guidance to sufferers, their friends, family and partners.

Project Educate 2021 Stage One, funded by the National Lottery Awards for All, comprises four colourful A4 double-sided self-help factsheets and four corresponding podcasts aimed at helping people who have experienced prolonged interpersonal trauma and abuse better understand their symptoms and provide information on NHS treatments and complementary therapies.

The initiative comes at a time when the country is facing unprecedented pressure on mental health services and many people without previous experience of mental health problems are seeing their mental health and wellbeing decline.

Recovery Code X founder, Anna Bragga said "We'd like to thank Bedford Mayor, Dave Hodgson, for supporting our project. We contacted him back in March asking for help and were lucky to meet him to discuss our work and get his advice on several questions we had. Our next priority is getting the factsheets and podcasts out to the public. We're organising an online forum to discuss this with mental health professionals and support workers in September. This initiative is about self-empowerment at a time when many people are feeling confused, anxious and disempowered. If we can get just one person on the path to healing and recovery, the work will all have been worthwhile, if we can get twelve, we'll be ecstatic."