Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Frances Beck I have now survived for 14 months without Conor being physically in our lives. Fourteen months that I couldn’t imagine how I possibly could keep on, yet here I am keeping on keeping on. And I’m still counting. I still count the weeks and months away from Continue Reading
By Victoria Jane I would just like to make it clear that I am not athletic by any stretch. And I would rather sit on my backside and chomp on a whole cheesecake than go for an hour’s jog in the freezing-cold rain! That said, I am a firm believer Continue Reading
By Ashlyn Reid We can spend every waking moment with a loved one and still not know a single thing about them. The truth of the matter is, the face we present to the world may not always be authentic. Laughs are easy to force. Smiles don’t need a cause. Continue Reading
By Jessica Evans This is a question that I ask myself to this day. Why didn’t I tell someone what was going on? Why didn’t I tell someone what I was going through? Even as I sit and write this, my mind is blank. I cannot understand why I didn’t Continue Reading
By Jake Cox Even the Happiest of People Wow, I didn’t know they had depression. They always seemed so happy and had everything going for them. This is a common sentence we all use when someone we knew and loved has taken their own life. The happiest people, the most Continue Reading
By Lindsay From some of my other musings, you may have picked up that I’ve lost a couple of jobs in my time. Two due to my mental ill health, but I’ve also been made redundant. I’ve been to a decent number of job interviews, and have worked out some Continue Reading
By Anonymous Currently I’m feeling so alone with my mental health. Everyone keeps telling me I can go to them when I’m struggling. But I’m stuck because I’m so worried that I’ll lose everything. I work full time and just keep on going. Recently I had an incident with my Continue Reading
By Eloise I, like so many other people, deal with anxiety on a daily basis. It creeps its way into so many aspects of my life. As I write this, anxiety is preventing me from calling my local medical centre to book an appointment. But the topic of this blog Continue Reading
By Arun Dahiya If you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD) you may have the idea that your inner critic is the driving force behind most of the maladaptive behaviours. Generally during childhood,or later, if you were constantly criticised, mocked or punished, it’s very likely that you may have internalised Continue Reading
By Compos Mentis Me This is a blog about depression. If you are easily offended or take offence to sarcastic humour, please do not read any further. Mental illness is not a joke It is not something to point fun at and I fully understand that. BUT…when the going gets Continue Reading
By Kirsty Happiness is fleeting. Relatively easy to obtain but even more easily lost. Happiness is a child with an ice cream. It’s lost when they drop it. Happiness is the joy in a flowers vibrancy and scent. It’s lost when they wilt. Happiness is a night of music and Continue Reading
By Anonymous I have been considering my reasons for not wanting to have children and know, in my heart, amid the list of a thousand points, there’s one that I’m actually slightly ashamed of. Here is my reasoning.. We know there are people out there that use recreational drugs, perhaps Continue Reading