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I have a lot of shame surrounding past traumas. The deep, empty guilt and pain is unfounded.
The worst is that my feelings are unjustified.
I ask myself, ‘just because some...
Hi my name is Elena Ramona, I am 30 year old musician based in the UK.
For as long as I remember I have suffered with anxiety and depression, all my life I behaved in a certain wa...
Myth: Anxiety is not a real mental illness.
Truth: While experiencing some level of anxiety is both normal and important, helping us deal with the challenges life throws at us, wh...
This blog was anonymously uploaded by a SANE campaigner.
Two individuals living with two separate diagnoses. One bond, one marriage. The disorders that co-exist here are: paranoi...
This blog was anonymously uploaded by a SANE campaigner.
The government frequently speaks of improving facilities for mental health provision. To the majority of service users, t...
Due to the stigma around OCD that has been highlighted on social media and TV, people have established the belief that they may have some form of OCD due to wanting to clean someth...
What does OCD look like?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a chronic anxiety-related disorder dominated by compulsions and obsessions. Obsessions are thoughts, urges and menta...
Hope
by Samantha Crilly
Mental illness is like a cancer of the mind,
An Imperceptible indiscriminatory presence to humankind
Those touched by it, will know it’s a debilitat...
Ana
by Samantha Crilly
Sitting down to my family dinner,
Everyone staring as I become thinner.
Ana slowly creeping into my thoughts
Telling me to put down my knife and fork.
The...