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Each month we are encouraging our bloggers to write about a themed topic. December's theme is mental health during the holiday season.
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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...
I'm in a hole. It's dark down here. There may be a lovely warm, sunny day at the top of it but from here I can't see it. There's a pot and a lid down here with me, and some sort of...
I'm on to session 4 now and I've finally forced him to speak a little.
"What do you think will happen if you don't speak, and you just have space to think?"
I don't know what to sa...
I've been dealing with depression since I was a young girl, and was able to cope having support from my GP, as I got older and started school I started to realise that something ha...
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