Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Anonymous If you have Borderline Personality Disorder, you know how much of a struggle it is to live day-to-day. Like me, you find hints of rejection and abandonment in almost every conversation you have with people. You over-analyse every facial expression and every word spoken to you. It is Continue Reading
By Tina Blacksmith It seems nowadays everywhere you look, people are on their phones. I’ve only had a cell phone for a little over a year now, and before I got one I used to call people “phone zombies”. You can probably guess why. People walk across streets with their Continue Reading
The lasting impact of suicide on loved ones is close to my heart. I’m holding back tears. Please stay safe. Talk to someone. If only he had known.
By Sophie Ann what is it? is it raw emptiness that fills my body throughout each day, every wake feeling more exhausting than the last? the airy emotion that is plastered with a smile, the “normal me” I force myself to play at school? is it the constant tapping inside Continue Reading
Does self harm help? I always chose cutting, despite the pain, despite the hurt inside, because I wanted to live and the only alternative was death.
By Eleanor Johnson To the person who saved me. I truly wish I could tell you this face to face, but the reality is I think, that on my road out of hell, I damaged our friendship beyond repair. I will always regret that. The truth is though that without doing Continue Reading
Today is a bed day: one of those days when I know I am safe if I sleep. It isn’t a lazy day, and it isn’t a fun PJ day. A day where I cannot function.
By Sophie Ann I hurt. I ache all over. My limbs weary and dehydrated from the tears I cried in that empty yard behind the tall church, the horses staring in confusion. I spoke to you like you were there, telling you the recent events of school and the stress from Continue Reading
By Sophie Ann The Pain Sits There It sits in my stomach, like a balloon. just blocking the path for food, keeping me full for starving days. The pain sits there, making me feel sick and weighed down by the regret and things I should’ve said, and the things I Continue Reading
By Sophie Ann I stare at the gloomy reflection on my wall: the tired under-eyes growing dark with fatigue and messy hair shoved up in a halfhearted bun, not even attempting to reach on the desk for my brush. Want, desire, need: I’m longing for that one close hug that would lift every Continue Reading
By Sophie Ann There are so many things flying in my mind, crashing against my skull, creating a constant migraine of pain and exhaustion. So many questions swaying on my shoulders, dragging me down lower and lower throughout the day. So many voices telling me things that I believe and Continue Reading
By Christopher Naylor In 2013 out of nowhere I was suddenly struck with agonising shooting pain, in my right wrist. I had no idea that this was the beginning of a chronic neuropathic pain condition. I was driving a work car for a previous employer at the time, and so Continue Reading