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Our mental wellbeing is something that we take for granted. We do not ever imagine that one day, for whatever reason, we might find ourselves not mentally healthy. Maintaining our ...
Hello SANE readers.
It was self-harm awareness day last week, so I thought I'd do a little blog on Self-Harm for the SANE website and explore my experiences with SH, in the hope th...
I suffer from depression and anxiety which has made parts of my life very difficult to face. Even though I have had the condition since I was a teenager due to being bullied I want...
Now, I grew up in the countryside. I grew up surrounded by fields and trees and birds and scenery so stunning that my eyes would drown in its richness and my soul become drunk by t...
Positive things that social anxiety has taught me;
----------- *To be grateful for every little social encounter that I have*
I don’t expect my friends to remember every thing they...
Anxiety comes over me like a cloud of indefinable darkness and confusion. My heart starts beating faster, my stomach goes into overdrive (like a washing machine) and my abdominal m...
Hey everyone!!!
Please follow my day to day account of feelings, thoughts and strategies that helped.
Stay positive.
Helen
24/02/14
Feeling good, reinforced positive language, I ca...
Hello SANE readers.
Today I thought I'd share with you some of my thoughts and feelings about sympathy and mental illness.
A very good friend of mine suggested that it is futile to...
Sylvia Plath has a magic way with words. She said:
"I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. So much easier than facing people, than having to look happy, in...
He was put to the sword in 'Dear Depression'. He hit back in 'Right of Reply'. Now, Depression faces the final judgement.
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'Depression, you stand accused of a most heinous cri...