Reducing the stigma around mental health
By Helen Sometimes having depression can and clearly does, in my case, affect motivation. Then comes the guilt over doing nothing at all again, wrapped up in thoughts that do nothing to help my progress. Rumination is a difficult habit to break. Hence months have past since my last post, Continue Reading
Stigma is still out there and it is silencing sufferers who need our help. Please, be part of the solution. Educate yourself and those around you.
Needless platitudes didn’t help. ‘At least he didn’t suffer.’ ‘At least you were with him.’ Her dad had died. The myth of positivity didn’t change that.
Some who read my blog may find this post upsetting. I’m going to be walking on holy ground for many of us who live with dissociative identity disorder.
I accept that we all feel depressed at some point. Life is not always happy. But feeling depressed is not the same as being ill with depression.
I am DONE with the heartache and drama and upset and stress. DONE with the fucking turmoil. I am DONE with inconsistencies, DONE with hot and cold.
It’s only us humans that define time. Really, it’s a continuum. I’m not posting new resolutions this year. Just moving forward and learning from mistakes.
It’s been a crazy and confusing few months, which has got in the way of writing. From shock to deep sadness, to relief and happiness.
What’s this darkness lying inside? | It kills our men… it’s suicide. | Men’s biggest killer up to fifty, | too many lives over swiftly.
I want to dedicate my life to helping people with mental health issues, so I should practise what I preach. This is my truth. I am #1in4
Dear psychiatrist, I know you thought you were helping me by giving me a diagnosis. But now, doctors refuse to treat me and people don’t trust me.
Even the most poorly people on that ward would joke about how they are an adult, work, own a home, but are not allowed a pencil sharpener or pair of laces.