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Each month we are encouraging our bloggers to write about a themed topic. October's theme is Motivating Yourself.
Share your thoughts/experiences with the SANE Community here.
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Depression is probably the hardest thing I have ever experienced and had to try to describe. How can I compare it? It's like being in a room full of people but still feeling alone,...
'How do you know you have a problem?' That is one of the most common questions I get asked, and yet one of the hardest to explain.
At one point a couple of years back I didn't, for...
I wrote this blog during my last in-patient stay at hospital where I received help and respite for a huge 'down' episode. (I am bipolar)
I sat today on my bed thinking about what a...
Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start when you feel like you have so much going on in your life. I try to look for the obvious point in my life where the problems started; but...
Anxiety is...
...trying to block out my 3 year old talking to me because I can't hear myself ruminate
...like a continually inflating balloon, wary of invisible pins, oblivious tha...
What irritates me most about depression and anxiety is the way it shuts me off from other people. When I am down it's not that I find it hard to connect it's almost as if I forget ...
6 seemingly endless weeks later, and the election campaigns are nearly over. You can not escape the political tirade, whether you stay at home or venture outside we are bombarded w...
I am currently being 'stalked' by the mental health system, which is using all sorts of underhand techniques to try to ascertain where I am in order to 'get' me into 'captivity', b...
After 25 years of believing I was frigid, a prude, had something wrong with my sex drive; I finally find out I am actually ASEXUAL. I have beaten myself up for years feeling useles...
Taken from my personal blog which can be found at https://inthemidstofmadness.wordpress.com/
Having an anxiety disorder is tough and I struggle with it daily. Add to that the bored...
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