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Big girls shouldn’t have an issue with food
One of my warning signs is an odd one for a lady of my shape. I can’t eat or drink. Well it’s not that I can’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...
At the beginning of lockdown I tuned in to what seemed like every news item and every daily update from Westminster. But as this year heads into winter it’s not surprising now that...
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...
Introduction to the paranoid me
There is a thought that people with paranoid schizophrenia are on the edge, teetering to do something terrible. Get their names in the paper with a ...
I’m not going to lie, but things at the moment just seem to be going from bad to worse. And it’s not just me being an Eyore, and having a melancholy outlook, they really are, and i...
Background Story...
Ok, so, none of this is easy to write but I am on the road to recovery. I am not healed or cured, and I don't think it may even be possible, but I am now in a p...
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