Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Liam Fraser Lately I’ve learnt asking for help in life Is harder than ever, it’s a tiring fight Don’t get me wrong there’s overwhelming support You’ll know what I mean if you’ve been here before Hands up if you’ve wasted many hours of explaining Nice try… but you figured Continue Reading
By Samantha Jones Christmas is meant to be a happy time of year for everyone. However, this is not always possible when you live with a mental illness. Depression cannot differentiate between birthdays, Christmas, or any other day in fact. Depression doesn’t give you a day off just because everyone Continue Reading
By Kelly Slaney Christmas can be a fabulous time of year. In fact, Christmas can be the best time of year. It can also be absolutely ram packed full of stress and anxiety triggers and noise and mess and chaos and worst of all… All. The. People. Anxiety at Christmas Continue Reading
By Anonymous Recently I’ve had a psychotic episode. I woke from a nap on the sofa in my living room after not sleeping well the night before. When I went to sleep everything was totally normal. The TV was on but muted, I was lying down covered with a blanket Continue Reading
By Sara-Jane Morphew So I did it, I tried to go back to work. I felt I needed to at least try; I couldn’t make any decisions about what might be next until I had tried to return. Everything was under control, I felt well, I was good. My hours Continue Reading
By Alan D.D. You swore you would never be there again, that that time would be the last time, that you would remain clean, and yet here you are, feeling the cuts again, watching the blood on your skin, feeling guilty for lying to yourself and those who listened to Continue Reading
By Elli Last month, my friend Sri and I had a four-day break in Lisbon. We are old friends – we met in sixth form – and have not holidayed together since we were 19, a fabulous two-week adventure in Italy, as you asked. This break had been a long Continue Reading
By Cynthia Fontaine Depression is not sadness My whole life, I thought depression was sadness. I thought people who were depressed were sad, and that eventually they’d “snap out of it”. I feel ashamed to have thought this, ignorant even. Depression is not sadness, and I’ll tell you exactly what Continue Reading
By Joshua I am a 20 year old gay man from the UK, and I was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) just over a year ago. The ‘Borderline’ part really hurt, which I think is true for many of us with the diagnosis. At first, I felt like the Continue Reading
By Gabriela I spend a lot of my time living in the past. Obsessing over what could have been or what would have happened if I had done things differently. I live in the past because I am not content with the present and the unknowingness of the future. I Continue Reading
By Lizbeth I was first diagnosed with depression in autumn 2009 following major surgery. After a few months of antidepressants it passed and I was convinced I’d been cured – until 2016. The tiredness, that overwhelming, debilitating tiredness, came first. Then came the feeling that I could no longer do Continue Reading
By Julia Foley People use social media for all kinds of different things. We advertise a business, sell a product, stay in touch with friends and relatives, or simply post cute photos of our dogs. The point is, everyone uses social media differently. For me, I use my social media Continue Reading