Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Patrick Bailey It was two years ago, but I can still clearly remember that the rain was falling very hard when I confronted Eric. I was asking him why he and my best friend Maria were kissing in that photo on my messaging app. I couldn’t get an answer. Continue Reading
By Ramesh Kumaran Paid Media It would be more appropriate to term “social media” as PAID MEDIA because without spending money on them, they are not going to cover any news on mental health. In India, who cares about mental health to use social media to increase awareness about mental Continue Reading
By Richard Dixon In memory of Glenn Dixon – To Paradise for Glenn Fundraising Walk Supported by Her Grace, The Duchess of Northumberland 150 Miles in 8 Days We are organising a 150 mile, 8 day, walk from Newcastle to Glasgow in August this year. This is in memory of Continue Reading
By Anonymous Heart Rate This was my heart rate yesterday. The spikes in the evening are the result of a panic attack. Sweat dripping off me, heart pounding, struggling to breathe, dry mouth, my whole body shaking and tunnel vision. The gradual increase during the afternoon is from the feeling Continue Reading
By Di I’m 52 and married with four children. Seven years ago I suffered a bout of depression which led to me getting into financial difficulties. The more depressed I got the less able I was to deal with my debt. The worry ate away at me. I started sleeping Continue Reading
By Jake Cox So it’s that time of year again, Love Island is back on our screens. The people in charge of the show select people who are stereotypically ‘fit’, in every sense of the word. All the contestants are considered attractive. All the guys are well toned with six Continue Reading
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