Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Samantha Jones I am sad, not depressed For a couple of months now I have been feeling low and out of sorts. It’s like there is a black cloud hovering above my head, not allowing me to think straight. This cloud doesn’t allow me to wash, leave the house, Continue Reading
By Darren Vincent Graham As I sit in this hole, Surrounded by the world. I hear people say, Stop being a girl. That’s just the way, We look at mental health. Like a borrowed book, Just sat on your shelf. You’ll never know the story, If you don’t turn the page. Continue Reading
Regardless of any political affiliations, which I have never stated on here and will aim to continue to not raise on here, it would be fair to say that Jeremy Hunt has long ranked as one of my least liked and least trusted politicians. In my eyes he has been Continue Reading
It has been announced by the UK government that thousands more NHS mental health workers will be employed. The aim is to be able to treat an additional one million mental health patients by 2020-21 by employing extra nurses, consultants and therapists. Jeremy Hunt, the minister for health, recognised and Continue Reading
By Victoria Jane I’m pretty sure that most mature students can relate to this blog. Firstly, I wish to congratulate anyone who has graduated this summer because without any shadow of a doubt, studying for three years whilst trying to maintain a basic everyday life is probably the most chaotic and Continue Reading
By Becca Thorpe Tired. A word with so many meanings. ‘I’m tired’ could translate as ‘I need to sleep’, but it could also mean ‘I’ve had enough’. I have. Being tired is exhausting Every task takes twice the effort of someone who isn’t tired. It’s difficult to do everything you Continue Reading
By Emma Kennedy I always felt different, like I didn’t belong, and never understood others completely. Nothing much has changed. I’m 37 years young, and learning more about me and the world everyday. Facing my depression, anxiety and alcoholism Since realising I had depression (aged 16), social anxiety (aged 21), and that those two Continue Reading
This is not the beginning the middle or the end. By Anonymous I was getting better, better each day. Made, thought I’d made a big improvement. Went up went down. Apologised explained tried. Even thought I’d made a friend, but apparently friends have to be vetted now. As long as Continue Reading
Earlier today, Talinda Bennington released a statement following the suicide of her husband, Chester Bennington, lead singer of Linkin Park “One week ago today, I lost my soulmate and my children lost their hero-their Daddy. We had a fairytale life and now it has turned into some sick Shakespearean tragedy. Continue Reading
Following the suicide of Chester Bennington, a fan of Linkin Park has died by suicide. A friend of the deceased fan made the following comment here “My best friend, who has had a very rough life, took Chester’s death very hard and decided to take her own life last night. It Continue Reading
Under the title ‘The Batman Killer – a prescription for murder?‘ the BBC investigative programme Panorama has suggested that James Holmes, the ‘Batman Killer’ – so named for having opened fire and killed 12 people inside a cinema watching Batman – only committed the crime because of the medication he Continue Reading
By Susan McKinstery The process of recovery, revival, rehabilitation Of being yourself again Possesses a quality no one tells you about There is no cataclysmic event Through which you are restored Rather it is the gradual clearing of a fog And the big secret? You are often the last to know Continue Reading