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View all blogsEach month we are encouraging our bloggers to write about a themed topic. September's theme is happiness.
Share your thoughts/experiences with the SANE Community here.
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Suicide is lonely.
The solution to an endless fight against my own mind.
So exhausted, nothing else seems possible.
Blinded by darkness. Where am I? Who am I?
An inescapable dark...
I am happy now, but it wasn’t always so. After many traumatic childhood experiences, I developed Dependent Personality Disorder. After being told by my mother so many times...
The irony right?
Those who know me on a personal level, and even on a professional level to some degree know how fiercely independant I am. In fact, I pride myself on this fact, be...
What can I say about relationships?
The easiest thing I can do is compare them to those pick a mix sweets you used to buy from that corner shop for like 20p and you would never kno...
I know more than I'd like to about toxic relationships. Having grown up, as an only child, with parents who argued constantly & had many negative issues, it wasn't long before thei...
I’m actually crying and tears are rolling down my cheeks. It’s 5.45am in the morning and I have just returned to my 4 star hotel bedroom in Spain, following the second...
Self control sucks, why is it we want the things we want so bad? Yet we get mad at ourselves the moment we have at it.
Some people go their whole lives caught up in addictive behav...
I know what's it like to feel at your wit's end, as though you're giving everything you can to a difficult situation and to the people you love in terms of your patience and time -...
After only one, brief post, written several years ago, why am I writing now? I honestly don't know, except that I have felt so awful for so long and somewhere inside me, I know tha...
This fantastic blog post was written by a supporter, and posted on their personal blog here: http://bit.ly/NvJssP where you can see many more of their brilliant posts. A huge thank...