Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Joanne Henley With BPD, comes reckless behaviour. According to the DSM 5, a diagnostic tool, we are impulsive with the potential for causing harm. It’s a difficult trait to cope with, because I literally screw myself over all the time, and it’s hard not to do it. With my self-critical Continue Reading
By Laura Smith For around 12 years (since I was about 13) I’ve suffered poor mental health. I was told by my mum to seek help, though it was met with the standard teenage tantrum and denial. Life went on and I bumbled through, eventually becoming a head chef at Continue Reading
By Clara Rose This is a note. To my best friend. Just to say thank you. For saving my life. I’ve known you for just a few years, but i feel as though it’s been eternity. We’ve laughed, we’ve cried; fallen out and made up. You aren’t like everyone, but Continue Reading
By Maxine Wright what would you find inside my mind deep, deep passages you will find in the darkness of despair, would u want to delve there? Confusion, sadness, anger ‘n fear, that’s the words over ‘n over again I hear, my mind pushing away good thoughts, for laughter ‘n Continue Reading
By Sara-Jane Morphew So as predicted I am not having a good nights sleep. It’s 3:30 am and I’ve been awake for a good while. Woke up dripping in sweat as usual, God knows what I am dreaming about. Apparently last night Tim got really freaked out because I started Continue Reading
Authored by clinical psychologists and researchers Dr Sarah Parry and Dr Filippo Varese and research assistant Rachel Djabaeva. Somewhere between “a great friend”, “scary” and “hard to explain” Learning from young people and parents about hearing voices Over recent months, we have been working with young people hearing voices and Continue Reading
By Edward Wickstead Depression is simply a chemical imbalance. As a neuroscientist, that is what I like to tell myself. Why then, does it clamp onto my mind like a vice? That inexplicable feeling of self-degradation and self-destruction… it can be overwhelming. Friends have asked ‘what does having depression feel like?’, Continue Reading
By Melissa Pallant I have been battling with anxiety and depression for 4 and a half years. I am an average 22 year old with a good job, great friends and from the outside you would not think I battle this illness. The first time I started showing signs of Continue Reading
We asked you, our followers, if you’d ever seen any TV shows or movies that addressed mental health and as usual you did not disappoint! Below are the movies that you had mentioned and what you have to say about them. Perfect for spending the day chilling out and watching Continue Reading
By Holly M So how do I begin? How do I put into words what goes on inside in my head? How do I put into words so others will understand? I’m not sure how but here’s my words …… So aged 18 I had my heart broken for the Continue Reading
By Helena The time I attempted to take my life, I had decided an overdose was the way to go. I was so scared of pain as I felt I’d had enough of that in my lifetime. It seemed tablets were a less harsh way to end it. Little did Continue Reading
By Nicola Anne I was on social media earlier in the week, and found myself caught up in a discussion about ear-piercing. A mother was asking what the earliest age a child could be to get their ears pierced. This question came with a disclaimer – that she was not Continue Reading