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Each month we are encouraging our bloggers to write about a themed topic. July's theme is anxiety.
Share your thoughts/experiences with the SANE community here.
We advise before submitting your Blog to save your entry on a Word document - in case any technical issues arise, you have your copy saved. If you are experiencing issues, please email your entry to fundraising@sane.org.uk and we will moderate and upload onto here for you.
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Remember, if you're in need of support, our confidential services are always here.
What an amazing experience to run the 10k in leeds. I ran this race in honour of my mum Dawn Eve Robinson who completed suicide 23/09/2013. I am a survivor of suicide. I do not wan...
I’ve always been an anxious person.
Socially, the ostensive self-assurance of my friends was something I had neither the facility nor resolve to comprehend. Girls were a nigh...
A wet Monday in my Mother’s bedroom
Early Autumn.
Two doors down, they are bringing home the turf.
Yellowing trees and grey and that first faint chill
in the distance; playgr...
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My depression isn’t a black dog. An animal wouldn’t, couldn’t scare me as much as this does so I have to give it another image. What would it be? Nothing ...
I'm in a really bad place, I just need help, I'm 27 male, married with two beautiful children and we used to be so happy until my accident in January. It's made me such a miserable...
I suffer with social anxiety disorder. I am writing this to shed light on a mental illness that is often not spoken of, which is unsurprising really given the nature of the conditi...
Everyone has their own idea of what autism is and how it affects an individual. But for those without it it can be harder to imagine what life can be like feeling completely differ...
Being a twenty something female is hard, it's much harder when you suffer at the hands of mental illness. I am lucky, lucky enough that I am able to keep fighting and fighting. I d...
It's school sports day. Nearing 30C.
I have a child in Year 4 and another in Nursery.
I used to be a governor at the school, before depression made it impossible to continue.
I am ...
What does mental illness look like to you?
Someone who sits in bed all day, unable to face the world?
A person who goes around crying all the time and is never happy?
Or perhaps ev...
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