Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Mel Ball This is the second part of my story – you can find the first part here I had recently undergone an operation for Carpel Tunnel Decompression to help stop the pain in my right hand. I’ll start with the happy side of it, it went well and Continue Reading
By Enjoythej0urney There was a mental illness present in my life years before my eating disorder ever took hold. My parents thought I just had some quirks, kids at school dismissed it as me being weird, and I kept quiet about every ritual and paranoid fear that I had. My Continue Reading
By Anonymous Life is hard – that’s just the way it is. But it’s also up to us to make the best of it that we can. From what my reading up has given me to understand, I think it’s more prevalent amongst Millennials, because mental health is down to Continue Reading
By Cat Davis My school’s counselling service is pushed to the back and most depressing corner of the student health centre. I find myself there, quite unamused by the set-up. I decide that after this first, mandatory meeting, I will never come back. Therapy is overrated; even if I am Continue Reading
By Anonymous I sit. I sit alone in the one place I feel slightly safe. Yet I still can’t stop thinking of what could happen. I listen for the noises and I’m sure my brain makes them up to please my suffering but yet I can’t relax. I tense up. Continue Reading
By Eliza The last couple of months have been the hardest part of my life – weeks of insomnia and nightmares combined with hours of crying until I’ve felt that I could not breathe and long working hours with feelings of guilt as I felt unproductive, stupid, unneeded and shame Continue Reading
By bipolaretaeus Before this most recent severe depression (and lesser episodes/cycling in between) I had a manic episode with mixed features which landed me my first acute admission to a psychiatric hospital. It was the most terrifying moment of my life. I’d never had one before and it came on with no Continue Reading
By Rachel Kellett I ended up in a psychiatric hospital. The hospital was out of area, to keep confidentiality, which unfortunately left friends and family a fair distance away. The experience itself was in retrospect a great learning curve as a doctor but it’s one that still makes me deeply Continue Reading
By Rachel Kellett Even the most enthusiastic foundation doctor on a busy acute medicine ward would agree, when your supervising consultant gives you three days notice to present at the grand round, it’s unlikely to leave you jumping for joy. She had an audit to show and wanted a case Continue Reading
By Elyse Hall So this is something new that I’m trying out. Blogging. Specifically I want to blog about my life, my PTSD recovery, my mental health journey and fashion! I suppose first I should introduce myself. My name is Elyse Hall. I love fashion, it provides a wonderful way Continue Reading
By Nicola Anne “It’s true. Your parents didn’t lie to you. There is no monster under your bed. He doesn’t lurk in the shadows, or the cupboard. He isn’t waiting in the back seat of your car, or in dark alleys, ready to feed off your fear, your pain, your Continue Reading
By Nicola Anne “My biggest fear, is that eventually you will see me the way I see myself.” (Anonymous) The most fascinating thing that I have discovered to date whilst on this journey, has been the overwhelming desire to protect the people I love. Protect them from what depression looks like… Continue Reading