Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Anonymous Mental health awareness seems to be more and more commonplace – a hugely positive thing. However, I’ve noticed a pattern: certain conditions and symptoms seem to be more acceptable than others. What do you do if your illness is still massively taboo? For example, when it affects your Continue Reading
By Alan D.D. Misjudged and misunderstood are adjectives I’m very familiar with, since High School, and even for a while when I was in college. People thought they knew it all about me and would define me with the wrong words. I’ve always been loyal to myself, embraced what I stand Continue Reading
By Natalie Patrick When you married the love of your life, you vowed to love and support them even in sickness and in health, for better or for worse. It’s guaranteed that you’ll endure troubling times. But when your spouse is diagnosed with a mental illness, you may not understand Continue Reading
By Kirsty So it snowed. It’s the first time we’ve had a proper snowfall here in about five years. It was my daughter’s first real snow, or rather the first she’d remember, so it was lovely. My eldest was cheered, as it’s the first time it’s snowed since we moved Continue Reading
I have a happy life and consider myself very lucky, so why did I want to die? I was in pain and had no understanding of what was happening. But I booked my 20 year dream: trekking to Everest Base Camp.
By Alan D.D. To love someone is a hard thing when you feel so low there’s no visible way up. To take the chance to care about someone else and care about what they think of you. There comes a time when someone walks into our hearts when we’re in Continue Reading
By Sara-Jane Morphew Adulting is hard, we know this, but having to do proper adulting is something else!! It all started when my darling husband developed man flu after getting drowning wet working on some animal enclosure or something zooie outside in the rain all day. He had a high Continue Reading