{"id":444521,"date":"2026-05-16T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/444521\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T09:36:09","slug":"photography-saved-my-life-now-i-use-it-to-help-others-coventry-man-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/444521\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Photography saved my life, now I use it to help others&#8217;, Coventry man says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photographer who founded a group to support people living with mental ill health credits the hobby with saving his life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Neil J Catley, from Coventry, has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, autism and dyslexia, and helps others through his group Confidence Through Photography.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has also self-published a book, which he said was created during a &#8220;mental health crisis&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I needed something to focus on,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d always wanted to release a book but never had the confidence, so I decided to push myself and see where it went.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I have a huge passion for the streets of Coventry and capturing them in my own way,&#8221; he added. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographer who founded a group to support people living with mental ill health credits the hobby with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[163,85,46,522,523],"class_list":["post-444521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-mental-health","tag-mentalhealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}