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Each month we are encouraging our bloggers to write about a themed topic. As April is Stress Awareness Month, this month's blog theme is stress.
Share your thoughts/experiences with the SANE Community here.
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I've only just started to come out about my mental health. And I don't know how to feel about it. I almost feel, ashamed. Worthless, stupid.
I feel like if I speak to my friends an...
Any one out there who can help me and ill do the same in return...... Bipolar is running and ruining my life x...
I called at the chemist this afternoon for my meds.
My turn came and my name was called.
As I stood in front of the dispensing counter the chemist whispered so quietly I had to ask...
Lisa shared this poem with us, which she wrote whilst struggling.
I don't want to talk, just leave me alone,
Stop texting me, stop ringing my phone.
I don't want your advice, or ...
The Black Cloud:
All you can see is an insignificant grey stain where once there burst a cacophony of colour.
A single flat note plays in a long monotonous stride, where once an or...
Dear All
A bit of a splurge below but thank you in advance for reading.
As some of you may or may not know I suffer badly from depression (DP). There are 3 main reasons I am sendin...
Today - I have come of my anti depres drugs and am following a normalish life. I still get my black cloud, black hole or black dog days but now I talk about it, I accept and I work...
Following on from Healing through writing....
My life carried on in this way for the next 6 years.....in the final year the peaks were more manic and the troughs were getting harde...
I was diagnosed with depression when I was 24 after I had entered into a very dark place!
I was to be honest, I think my depression really started to claw itself into my mind in my...
I read the patient information leaflet in my antipsychotic medication box. "You have been prescribed this medication because you have a disease", none was specifed. There was a lis...
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