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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...
An Unwanted Intruder
By Samantha Crilly
I lay there asleep, in peace on my bed
Avoiding waking to confront the demon in my head
Losing myself in my beautiful dreams
Feeling free...
The Black Dog
Who else has seen Sane Charity campaign? Its been going on for years and they even have a book about it. Its all the about the black dog. The black dog represents our...
Darkness Shines Through
I have always felt driven to become the man I wanted to be but at times struggled to be the man I should be
I have seen light in dark places and felt the da...