People are too scared to put a spanner in their portrayal of their perfect lives to speak up. That is why World Suicide Prevention Day is so damn important.
High Days and Holidays – The Enormity of my Grief
High days and holidays are even more difficult than the ordinary days. His absence is more apparent and the enormity of my grief is even more intense.
How to get better?
Feelings aren’t fact. It’s still there, like a whisper some mornings, but I laugh to myself now. Naaaa, you won’t get me again.
Missing Out
It’s hard to accept, but having chronic mental ill-health and taking medication every day has a significant impact on what I’m physically able to do.
Peaks and Troughs
A poem about the constant fluctuations of borderline personality disorder and how it feels to experience such opposing peaks and troughs.
Finding Beauty After Trauma
Allowing ourselves to peek out from behind the clouds of despair that often follow a traumatic event and see the beauty around us is life-giving.
Sui-versary – nearly reattempt – I didn’t, again
I nearly reattempted. I’m still in self-destruct mode, but their mental health team are going to try their magic wand this time.
Periods of War: Mental Health and Menstruation
I could really do without fluctuating moods that confuse and overwhelm me. I could do without quietly wondering what my chances of having kids are.
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
in 2005, I became so ill that I checked myself into a long-term mental health facility. But the staff said Dissociative Identity Disorder did not exist.
The Scribbles of Emotional Intensity Disorder
I am a musician, I am a singer, I am a uni student. I am someone with emotional intensity disorder! The scribbles of my thoughts…
I can’t seek attention to save my life
Fighting to be believed is simply too common when seeking help. Seeking attention is ridiculed, but why, when attention seeking saves lives?
Fight Depression with Exercise
You’d love to get up and get going, but you can’t find the motivation. You hate the gym and you hate walking outside… exercise just isn’t your thing!