Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Sarah My journey from desperation to hope really started in January 2017. I have a long history of depression and anxiety, particularly social anxiety. On the whole, like many others, I have forced myself to battle on without any support, other than from my family. I Understood I Had Continue Reading
I keep a mental Armoury of Knowledge, where there exists a notebook. It’s full of titbits of information I began to keep ten years ago, when it all began.
Anger doesn’t make you a lesser person, it makes you human. If only we allowed ourselves and others to be angry about the shitty things that happen.
It gets better, it gets worse and it gets better again. Re-animate yourself and keep fighting, I believe in you. Follow your passion.
Medicines used for psychiatric care are not like antibiotics. They don’t cure your illness – they help manage the symptoms.
If only I could stop living in the past, and forget about the years of sexual abuse! I told, and I was called a liar. Then history repeated itself.
I’m rebuilding my confidence by dancing again. I’m a work in progress. Under construction. One tiny dance step at a time.
I fight for my rights, I fight for my dreams. Yet the world fights against me and complains when I scream! Fighting the urge to stop fighting.
Depression took me by the throat and tightened its grip on the colours of my heart. But we can change the colour of our heartbeats and emotions.
I wanted the pain to stop – it wasn’t always about wanting to die. I’m recovering now. I don’t always have to be happy, and that’s ok.
Do you find you always have to please others, and never yourself? Be the person you want to be! There are no limits! FIGHT! FLY! AND RUN!
I’ve been wading through black sticky waist-deep tar the last two weeks. But here is how I turned a depressive episode into an opportunity.