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April 2020:
Mental illnesses are a strange beast. During the darkest throes of an episode, it is notoriously impossible to ever see a way out of the suppressing disdain. In contras...
so it started August the 14th 2019. Was pretty happy up until then, yes life was hard, having 2 young girls 3 and 6 at the time, also living with my mother in law, we got on so it ...
It is everywhere we look, social media, the news, leaflets and posters all over supermarkets. There is absolutely no hiding from it! And it can feel absolutely terrifying.
This con...
Grieving is one of the hardest things that we as human beings are likely to go through. However, as hard as it is for us to grieve ourselves, sometimes it can be just as difficult ...
So I have come such a long way over the last 16 years when I was diagnosed in 2003 with Bipolar and to say it has been a rocky road is an understatement however I am here to tell t...
It is a tool created by the American psychologist Robert Plutchik that serves as a great help to identify which are the basic emotions that are paramount to our survival and the re...
I don’t know what it is with my brain, but the minute it understands something, or it gets a reason that explains behaviour of something or someone, then I feel just a little...
Say the right thing
It can be really hard to know what to say to someone with an eating disorder. You do not want to ignore the illness, but sometimes you just do not know if you a...
This is a poem I wrote about mental health
It’s ok to not be ok
A person may appear fine on the outside but all may not be as it seems
For no one can ever know, just what’s going o...
So today began like any other in my mundane existence. I woke up and felt just as tired as I did when I went to sleep. I thought about the day ahead and felt a combination of despa...
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