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Hope : an expectant desire; to trust with confidence; to look forward to with trust (English concise dictionary).
Don't ever give up hope. Sailing the rough seas of mental health i...
Today is Wednesday. I am off work and feeling ill. I've got a flu type bug and I keep feeling like I want to blackout. I felt shaky earlier. It's not sunny today so staying in on t...
There she sits on the bench by the dark murky water in the pond
Where the cloak of loneliness that enfolds around her wearily
This cloak is her robe of rejection and weighs heavily...
So, I've been suffering from depression since I was 16, I'm now 26. I had my first psyhotic breakdown at 16 and I did not get the help that I needed. I continued at school but I wa...
When I was first diagnosed with suffering from Manic Depression, or Bi-polar mood disorder, in 1988, I did not believe it and had never heard of this condition. I simply felt I nee...
I never realised until yesterday just how little support I was getting and how much a few supportive and kind words from a stranger via this site can make to me. I'm so used to peo...
The sun is shining outside and I envy those who are walking past smiling and chatting. Why can't that be me. I'm sat inside looking out at the world feeling like I don't belong to ...
today is my birthday. i'm 59. i was woken at 4.30 am by my son Oliver knocking on the front door, and ringing the door bell.
he's not lived at home since he was 17 and he's now 23....
I have just come across this site, and heard about the Black Dog Campaign, I already write a blog about depression which is coincidentally also called 'My Black Dog'. It is in its ...
I've spent a lot of my life being the square peg in the round hole - in fact it's only recently that I've realised it's been far more often than I ever thought. For years I thought...
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