Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Scott Watson Postpartum depression affects up to 25% of men after the birth of a child and is a cause of male suicides. My descent in to the depressing time of the ‘baby blues’ actually started two months before my baby daughter’s birth. Pre/postnatal depression had a terrifying hold Continue Reading
By Jessica Evans For the child of a mother who has Borderline Personality Disorder or BPD, life can be a roller coaster ride. Except it’s the scariest ride of your life, it’s almost impossible to get off, and it never seems to end. I’ve written about what it’s like to 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 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 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 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
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 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 Anonymous Currently I’m feeling so alone with my mental health. Everyone keeps telling me I can go to them when I’m struggling. But I’m stuck because I’m so worried that I’ll lose everything. I work full time and just keep on going. Recently I had an incident with my 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 Connie Nagy…. Carl’s Mom Suffering in secret This is what I know and have learned since finding this picture on my son’s phone in November 2018. Carl secretly suffered from severe anxiety and who knows for how long as he never showed any signs of anxiety and decided to Continue Reading