Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Daydreaming Mum I know, I know. 10 points to the lady stating the bloody obvious! Next blog to be entitled ‘Reasons pulling out your own teeth hurts a little bit’. Stay with me though . Obviously anxiety is a horrid, annoying , debilitating condition. If it were fun everyone Continue Reading
By Daydreaming Mum My mental health and wellbeing, though fragile at times is on the whole pretty predictable. I suffer with anxiety. Recently (touch wood!!) there have been no huge flare ups. None of the chest crushing, struggling to breath. None of the panicky over thinking about all the terrible Continue Reading
By Kirsty Caswell I saw a post today talking about the focus on Carrie Fisher and the other celebrity deaths in 2016 instead of the atrocities in Aleppo and around the world. And I can say that these celebrity deaths HAVE affected me more deeply. Even if you feel that Continue Reading
More and more celebrities are speaking out for mental health advocacy
Since her untimely passing, there have been many pieces written about Carrie Fisher and the influence she had on mental health advocacy. Below are a selection of our favourites: The Mighty – Carrie Fisher, ‘Star Wars’ Actress and Mental Health Advocate, Dies at Age 60 This is My Brave – Continue Reading
INC.com – Shawn Achor, Author Of ‘The Happiness Advantage’ Shares 5 Things You Need To Be Happy I’ve been a fan of Shawn Achor since I saw his Ted Talk, here he shares 5 tips that can help boost your level of happiness Healthy Place – Building Your Bipolar Coping Skills Continue Reading
By Ani Borderline Personality Disorder, or BPD, has quite a heavy stigma, even in health care. I started to notice this almost immediately with brief but distasteful encounters. I remember seeing a girl in the psych ward throwing a tantrum, lying on the floor, screaming in fury, then seconds later Continue Reading
By Sophia Fedorowicz New Year’s resolutions fill me with a palpable dread. Each and every year the inevitable conversation is rolled out among the people I find myself in regular contact with, and I fight the urge to roll my eyes right in their inquisitive little faces. This is not Continue Reading
It can be incredibly difficult to adequately describe how it feels to have a mental illness. The use of art can be a fantastic tool to help convey those feelings and offer support for those who are fighting their own inner battles. UK based artist, and self proclaimed doodler, Sozzij Continue Reading
Christmas can be a very difficult time for many people, below are a selection of articles that you may hopefully find helpful or relatable.
Originaly posted on: http://antonysimpson.com/2016/15-lies-that-depression-would-have-you-believe/ Here are 15 lies that depression would have you believe: 15. That it is bigger than you. It’s not. It just makes you think this so that it can keep in control of you. 14. That it would be better if you never left your bed/room/house again. Continue Reading
Sometimes I brush my teeth for seven minutes straight because it just feels right. Some nights I put my pillow on the opposite end of the bed because I’m still hopeful that I’ll wake up different that way. I never do. Sometimes I forget that I’m reading in the middle Continue Reading