Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Patrick Bailey Abandoned and Hurt “I have to go and find myself.” This is the entire content of the text message I received, three days after I went home and found my wife gone. A couple of months before that fateful day, I knew deep in me that my Continue Reading
By Sarah Do We Let Past Traumas Define us? I work in the healthcare sector and I have heard a lot of disparaging comments against people with an EUPD diagnosis. As we get older, we have choices to make. Do we let past traumas define us or not? With things Continue Reading
By Amysboarderlineworld Living with mental health issues is strange. It’s painful, lonely, sad, spontaneous and even exciting! Until I was diagnosed around five and half years ago I never knew I had mental health issues. I knew I was different. I felt different things to other people. And I would Continue Reading
By Jake Cox Over the last few days I’ve seen so much positivity come from Mental Health Awareness Week. So much love has been shown from complete strangers to those who are struggling. Whenever I see someone struggling or reaching out I have no hesitation in messaging that person because Continue Reading
By Jake Cox I thought I’d got rid of you, yet here you are again trying to force your way back to me trying to feed off my pain but I promised myself that you had gone. I try and put you in my past But you never leave, always Continue Reading
By RAMESH KUMARAN I have observed that social media in India gives a very distorted image about psychiatry patients. In our films they are shown as comic characters or as criminals for the audience to jeer at them. And that is exactly what they do in public life,after coming under Continue Reading
By Jake Cox Depression isn’t simply feeling sad or down, it’s waking up and all the colours around you are faded. It’s feeling like absolutely nothing yet trying to go about you daily life while carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders. Your mind tells you that it Continue Reading
By Lauren Victoria Every year, without fail, I come across a sea of posts in aid of mental health awareness week. This year, I decided not to participate. Why? I have done a lot of thinking recently as I have had possibly too much time on my hands. Why is Continue Reading
By Amysboarderlineworld My Clouded Perception Body image is the perception that a person has of their physical self and the thoughts and feelings that result from that perception. These feelings can be positive, negative or both, and are influenced by individual and environmental factors. Have you ever looked at yourself Continue Reading
Writing this poem tonight comes from my own personal battle with anxiety, a battle that till this day I am still winning.
T Frances Beck This week is MentalHealthAwarenessWeek. And we all need to both share our own experiences of mental health problems and support those who do. This so that we can help to raise awareness and reduce stigma and discrimination. We also need to support people who are struggling with Continue Reading
By Andrew Low Sahaja Yoga meditation has been a lifeline for me in my mental health problems. I came to Sahaja Yoga after seeing a poster at Selwyn college when I started on the medical course at Cambridge University in 1982. Sahaja Yoga is free, and it is not compulsory. Continue Reading