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Each month we are encouraging our bloggers to write about a themed topic. The topic for November is 'Self Care'.
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It's a cold clear day here in the Dales. In the distance you can see snow on the hills - mountains they call them here - of the Lake District.
My original "Voyage" was poems and a ...
It's good to have a project. I've now got a reason to get up in the morning (other than my job - or jobs!) And keeping well and fit seems to have a real purpose... I'm eating bette...
As has happened before, having posted my piece "The Moment Of Truth" in MY STORY, I am struck by the comedy of it all. Was that me? Did that really happen? The answer is yes. I hav...
Yesterday I woke from a dream in which I was walking along a path. Suddenly the way started surging with water, pouring around me and towards the horizon. The water was up to my wa...
Christmas and New Year are often very difficult for people with mental health problems. Whether the time of year has troubling personal meaning or because you are supposed to be so...
I'm classed as a "mental health service user" because I am an identified sufferer of severe depression, anxiety disorder, OCD and I hear voices (not specifically labelled at this p...
Something that truly bothers me is everybody's perception of self harm. I think, in realism, the only way you will ever truly understand what it means and what it takes to self har...
I suppose it's all the same cliche sort of stuff, depression, isn't it?
I am nearly eighteen years old and I think I have already lost the will to live. Tenfold.
I certainly think ...
Apparent competence refers to outwardly being able to cope and seeming in control, while inwardly being completely lost, or mentally unwell. It does not necessarily have the abilit...
Have you ever been talking to someone, and listening to what they are saying and felt a huge rush of compassion for them, one that feels like you are just going to burst, and it is...
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