Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Annon If you see me walking down the street, you don’t see my scars, mental or physical. You see a young woman, full of youth, smiling and laughing. “She looks so happy, always smiling” Is just one of the many sentences I hear about myself. Yet behind closed doors, Continue Reading
By Jennifer Catherine Medication is a common treatment for many mental illnesses, but it is also very stigmatised. Many people still think that if you need to take medication for a non-physical illness then you are crazy and should be locked away. I believe that you should do whatever it Continue Reading
By Jennifer Catherine So, yesterday I had a psychology appointment and I got the results back for possible diagnoses. For approximately three years I have been going through the process of figuring out what was going on in my mind. And to finally have some answers is such a relief. Continue Reading
By Amy I’m missing my momma so much. It is a pain unlike any other. To never hear her speak, feel her touch, see her smile… It came so suddenly and took her away so abruptly. No fighting chance to keep her here. All hope gone knowing we had to Continue Reading
By AnnaMolly If you had asked me 5 years ago what I thought therapy would be like, I wouldn’t really have been sure. So I’d have probably told you I imagined it as a bespectacled man, sitting in a big leather chair, while I lay on a chaise lounge, and Continue Reading
By Robinspain I’m sat here wondering if this is a good idea, filling up and about to cry drowning in self pity. No wanting anything, to live to die, to eat breathe. I’ve been here before, not wanting to live, wanting the pain to stop, I guess suicidal, but I Continue Reading
By Amy So here it is. The start, the beginning. I am a bit unsure how to do this, so bear with me. I have been told on several occasions that I ought to ”write a book” about our lives. I am not beyond sharing our story I just don’t Continue Reading
By Jake Cox When it Hits You Sometimes, you’ll have a really good couple of days full of laughter and full of absolute joy. You think you’re finally starting to feel yourself again and then it hits you, everything starts to come back. It’s starting all over again. It hurts Continue Reading
By Arun Dahiya 1. Try to Snap Out of it Thank you, I never thought that I could snap out of it. Ah! I just need to cheer up. This is so wrong. Would you say to someone with a broken leg that you don’t need a cast, just walk? Continue Reading
By Frances Beck I have now survived for 14 months without Conor being physically in our lives. Fourteen months that I couldn’t imagine how I possibly could keep on, yet here I am keeping on keeping on. And I’m still counting. I still count the weeks and months away from Continue Reading
By Victoria Jane I would just like to make it clear that I am not athletic by any stretch. And I would rather sit on my backside and chomp on a whole cheesecake than go for an hour’s jog in the freezing-cold rain! That said, I am a firm believer Continue Reading
By Ashlyn Reid We can spend every waking moment with a loved one and still not know a single thing about them. The truth of the matter is, the face we present to the world may not always be authentic. Laughs are easy to force. Smiles don’t need a cause. Continue Reading