For the past 12 months I have been on a Sleeping with Wainwright adventure. Camping and Bivvying Wild on all 214 mountains in the Lake District under the name @amountainbivvy on social media.

To celebrate the final night in what will be a Worlds First adventure I have organised a Bivvybag World Record Attempt.

To join in the Bivvybag World Record Attempt please see the details on the Facebook group 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/411508870456399/

Or search for the group Bivvy Bag World Record Attempt 26/2/2022

I have been doing this to help come to terms with my own mental illness, EUPD and to raise funds and awareness for my charity MQ Mental Health Research.

The mind is the greatest unsolved problem in medicine and my illness was undiagnosed for over 40 years. It’s not a label it’s a diagnosis and once I knew what it was steps could be taken find a way to live with it. For years when it wasn’t explained it has caused difficulties in my personal and working life. My goal is to help make the world a better place, where understanding is increased and tolerance prevails and that is also the goal of MQ Mental Health 

We’re MQ, the mental health research charity. We transform lives through research, helping to create a future where mental illnesses are understood, effectively treated and one day prevented.  Right now, one in four people in the UK are living with a mental health condition. Our scientists investigate a huge range of issues: depression, anxiety, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, eating disorders and more. We’re bringing together everything from cutting-edge neuroscience to social studies to find the answers we need. Better is possible.

For those who don’t know EUPD stands for Emotional Unstable Personality Disorder. In layman’s terms it like being the Hulk. For 99% of the time you go about normal but on the other 1% your brain goes haywire, all intelligence goes and it’s like a bomb going off. Anything in your path gets destroyed. When you come round later the damaged items can be replaced but not so easily the damage to your relationships. There is no cure and no known cause at the present time.