Gal Lo Leggio

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Name: Gal Lo Leggio
Age: 29
City: Brighton
Country: United Kingdom

Joined: Jul 2008

Born Galileo Giacomo Calogero Lo Leggio on the 25th of June 1979 in Assisi, Italy from a pair of Sicilian Communists, I moved to the UK on the 13th of Novemebr 1993 (at 14 years of age) to Live with my sister of 8 years my senior.

I did my secondary school in Reading (Berkshire) and then moved to Brighton to do a degree in Humanities which i completed in 2002. Although i spent most of my degree time either in the Computer room of the Art & Architecture Faculty making flyers and digital art pieces, (where i self-taught myself the use of Photoshop) or drinking in various bars or taking henious ammounts of recreational drugs.

I had my first episode of depression when i was 11 and then again at 12, although at the time all that anyone could say was i was ill although they had no idea why.
I began writing poetry at about that time. But became a real hobby at 14.

4 years ago i had an episode of Hypomania and had to see the psychiatrist at the hospital, because i was self medicating myself with uppers at the time I was not given a true diagnosis, however last month i went back to the hospital and am now classed as Bipolar II.

The label itself has given me much needed focus on my well being and I’m trying to understand my illness so to live with it at his fullest.

I see my illness as a cursed gift that i would never give up on if it were possible.
It has allowed me to experience emotions i believe non bipolar people ever will. The moments of mania give me much energy and inspiration especially on the visual side of my art, whilst my depressive moments have allowed me to write beautiful yet dark pieces of poetry.

...More to follow….

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