Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Nadene During the last few days of Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week I have read so many amazing stories of mum’s who have recovered from mental illness after the birth of their baby. The stories should have inspired me. Eleven years ago I struggled with severe post natal depression. Continue Reading
By Nadene It’s a question that I have asked myself a lot recently. I am not suicidal. I’m just completely stuck with my progress and totally fed up. I have had a more on than off relationship with mental illness for over ten years now. I know that is not Continue Reading
By Nadene There is no doubt about it. When you suffer from a mental illness, it’s hard to open up. Even harder to be honest about what dark thoughts race through your mind every waking moment. Things are definitely improving but there is still far too much stigma surrounding it Continue Reading
I am getting out there and managing to be around other people on my own. Not as a mum, or a wife. Simply as a person who is struggling in life.
Can anyone comprehend why someone with a great family, job and home would try to exit their life prematurely? Do they think I was just being selfish?
My irrational head always seeks out the worst case scenario and convinces me that it’s the only logical answer. It doesn’t matter how stupid it sounds.
I told every member of staff and both of my psychiatrists just how evil I thought I was. That I needed locking up with the key thrown away.