Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Jessica Evans This is a question that I ask myself to this day. Why didn’t I tell someone what was going on? Why didn’t I tell someone what I was going through? Even as I sit and write this, my mind is blank. I cannot understand why I didn’t Continue Reading
By Jake Cox Even the Happiest of People Wow, I didn’t know they had depression. They always seemed so happy and had everything going for them. This is a common sentence we all use when someone we knew and loved has taken their own life. The happiest people, the most Continue Reading
By Lindsay From some of my other musings, you may have picked up that I’ve lost a couple of jobs in my time. Two due to my mental ill health, but I’ve also been made redundant. I’ve been to a decent number of job interviews, and have worked out some Continue Reading
By Eloise I, like so many other people, deal with anxiety on a daily basis. It creeps its way into so many aspects of my life. As I write this, anxiety is preventing me from calling my local medical centre to book an appointment. But the topic of this blog Continue Reading
By Arun Dahiya If you live with borderline personality disorder (BPD) you may have the idea that your inner critic is the driving force behind most of the maladaptive behaviours. Generally during childhood,or later, if you were constantly criticised, mocked or punished, it’s very likely that you may have internalised Continue Reading
By Compos Mentis Me This is a blog about depression. If you are easily offended or take offence to sarcastic humour, please do not read any further. Mental illness is not a joke It is not something to point fun at and I fully understand that. BUT…when the going gets Continue Reading
By Kirsty Happiness is fleeting. Relatively easy to obtain but even more easily lost. Happiness is a child with an ice cream. It’s lost when they drop it. Happiness is the joy in a flowers vibrancy and scent. It’s lost when they wilt. Happiness is a night of music and 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 Zoe Thomson As a child, I had hardly any female role models. I had no sisters, my relatives lived far away, and Captain Marvel wasn’t a thing. But despite that, I grew up strong-willed, determined, and kind. And I owe it all to my mum. I’ve always been close Continue Reading
By Brenda Kimble The road leading up to your pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis feels like a rollercoaster. Now that you’re over one of the many hills, you have another to conquer: Sharing your diagnosis with your friends. However, spilling the beans to your friends shouldn’t be a split-second decision. It’s something Continue Reading
By Jake Cox I hope that this finds someone who is having a tough time at the moment and it helps you rediscover yourself. Don’t allow the dark moments to take you over because once you rediscover the light you can take yourself back from the thoughts and feelings. Please Continue Reading
By Sophie Ann Arching over the small town A blue sky turned grey prayers quickly spoken to the Almighty A lost beauty within the hearts of all A crying cloud dampened the moods further into the mud ground not a smiled shared within those dear until the rainbow, like clockwork, Continue Reading