1/1 A YORK man who struggled with his own mental illness for years and then had to cope with the trauma of his mum’s suicide has found a new lease of life - working for mental health charity York Mind. Gavin Dickinson, 53, says Mind helped him cope following his mum Joan’s death just before Christmas 2019 - then helped him through lockdown. His new job as an administrator with the charity’s activities programme feels like a way of ‘giving back’, he said. Gavin, who recently moved to Easingwold but lived for years in Acomb, said he had struggled with bipolar disorder since his 20s - though for years he didn’t know what it was.