I took a mental breakdown last year. I have depression, but I have a second chance now and I want to share my story. In time, things do get better.
Skipping your childhood… Impossible!?
Children need emotional validation, because they are growing into a terrifying world and trying to establish how to feel about it.
The importance of getting help with anxieties and fears
Getting professional help with anxieties and persistent fears is the most important step in your recovery. Don’t be ashamed to ask for help.
Fair Weathered Friends
He had the kite in the boot and he was going to go for one last ride. He explained that the next day everything was being repossessed.
Don’t wait to be asked for help
We don’t want to be a burden. The shame and guilt are overwhelming; the fear of being rejected is suffocating. Asking for help is hard.
The Evangelist
The first time I really discovered narcissism was a couple of years ago when my then-new friend began, bit by bit, telling me about her previous relationship
Life with PTSD after surviving Domestic Abuse
The anxiety and fear caused can be debilitating. Truth be told, it really does affect my life, my friendships and my relationship.
How Can You Justify Your Own Attempted Suicides?
Can anyone comprehend why someone with a great family, job and home would try to exit their life prematurely? Do they think I was just being selfish?
Somatization: A New Term for Many
Some who read my blog may find this post upsetting. I’m going to be walking on holy ground for many of us who live with dissociative identity disorder.
Being okay seems so far away …
I am scared typing this that it sounds nuts and all very silly and trivial. But the things in my head, like little beasts, are telling me that everything is wrong.
GP Receptionists
When I think about the crisis team who lied to me; falsified my patient records; laughed at me; made suicide jokes; made me feel like nothing, I get palpitations
Post natal psychosis
The GP gave me a scrap of paper with details of a counselling service. Around twelve hours later, I put a six-inch kitchen knife into my neck.