Reducing the stigma around mental health
You got there. Despite your lack of belief that it was possible, you fought your illness and came out of the other side. In some ways, it made you weaker. To fight every day against the overwhelming urge to just give up and retreat to your bed was exhausting. But Continue Reading
How many times have you told yourself, ‘I’m not good enough’, ‘I’m hopeless’ or ‘I’m a failure’? Consider how many times your inner voice has said this versus the amount of times it has said ‘You’re great!’, ‘You’re amazing!’ or ‘You’ve done so well!’. I’m willing to bet that the Continue Reading
I think of my depression as a thief. It crept in when I least expected it and it took everything that was dear to me. But unlike a thief, it didn’t take a laptop, jewellery or money. It took away the things that made me who I was; my outgoing Continue Reading
It is said that if you have depression, you are living in the past, and if you have anxiety, you are living in the future. Living in our heads so much is detrimental to mental wellbeing, and the chances are, if you have a mental health problem, you do enough of that already.
Mental and physical health are so often treated as two separate entities, when the reality is, one cannot exist without the other. If we are physically well, we are more able to stay mentally healthy. Physical wellbeing promotes recovery.
I was the last to know that something was wrong. I didn’t wake up one day feeling depressed.It crept up on me over weeks and months.