Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Acacia Dear Monkey, Why me? Why did you have to choose me? Do you have to sit on my shoulder 24/7 muttering away in my ear? Why do you have to make me over think and over analyse everything I do? Please can you just go away, please can Continue Reading
By Shae Hansen Having a spouse with anxiety has definitely been a learning experience. I didn’t have very much experience with anxiety before I met my husband. In the beginning of our relationship I wasn’t very understanding. There were things that he would worry about that seemed incredibly insignificant to Continue Reading
By Jody Elford I’ve been using the Daylio app for thirty-nine days now. It has been interesting and helpful to look back on the reports it had produced for November. I feel there is potential for a lot of insight to be gained from diarising habits and mood tracking that Continue Reading
By Natalie Patrick I swear, going to bed can feel like a job when you have anxiety. Your body wants to sleep, but your mind–oh, no! My anxious mind is like the boogeyman. When head meets pillow, it creeps from out of the darkness. It’s 3 am, and, HELLO! Anxiety Continue Reading
By Kelly Slaney Christmas can be a fabulous time of year. In fact, Christmas can be the best time of year. It can also be absolutely ram packed full of stress and anxiety triggers and noise and mess and chaos and worst of all… All. The. People. Anxiety at Christmas Continue Reading
By Sara-Jane Morphew So I did it, I tried to go back to work. I felt I needed to at least try; I couldn’t make any decisions about what might be next until I had tried to return. Everything was under control, I felt well, I was good. My hours Continue Reading
By Elli Last month, my friend Sri and I had a four-day break in Lisbon. We are old friends – we met in sixth form – and have not holidayed together since we were 19, a fabulous two-week adventure in Italy, as you asked. This break had been a long Continue Reading
By Gabriela I spend a lot of my time living in the past. Obsessing over what could have been or what would have happened if I had done things differently. I live in the past because I am not content with the present and the unknowingness of the future. I Continue Reading
By Elli Not all the causes of anxiety can be rectified quickly or easily. I have found through personal (and often painful) experience, there are certain mindsets and patterns of behaviour that take months or even years to unpick. That may not sound very encouraging, especially if you are battling Continue Reading
By Tina Blacksmith It doesn’t end once the abuse is over. I didn’t realise at the time that I would deal with the aftermath of growing up in a broken home for years and years after he was gone. If someone thinks abuse isn’t “a big deal” and we should Continue Reading
By Andressa Andrade Earlier this year I was diagnosed with an anxiety disorder. I had been struggling with my physical health for months, and had a stomach illness that made me feel sick all the time. Because I could barely eat anything and lost a lot of weight, leaving the Continue Reading
By Gabriela I haven’t been okay in quite a while. I like to paint a smile on my face and pretend I’m invincible, like I have all of the answers, but that’s not true. I still struggle, and I still hurt. I still get the living shit beat out of Continue Reading