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Each month we are encouraging our bloggers to write about a themed topic. The topic for August is exercise.
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I had a taste of how life used to be for me. I felt hope and lightness. Normal living. Saturday just gone, I spent the day in Camden with my son and his new girlfriend, had marvell...
It has been about 14 years now since the first episode of self harm and about five or six years nearly with no self harm ( a minor slip in between). At the start of a downward spir...
It is funny the way after short spells in hospital I return home and slip seamlessly back into my life as if I have never been away. I find myself having a busy day today and feeli...
My mind is busy again. It's full of what ifs, questions about mistakes I make. Thoughts that I'm not worthy. I'm a fool. Old messages of my mum sneaking through the cracks. I know ...
I am a pa/support worker to a 29 male with moderate learning difficulties. Unfortunately his family pet dog of 14yrs (his "brother") was put to sleep.
Over the course of a few week...
So my 14 CBT sessions I was allocated to be cured from what ever is happening in my mind is coming to and end am I better? No, do I need longer? Yes, will I get longer? Well that's...
As a Bipolar sufferer of some 16 odd year and living with inadequacy of the services of the local council, I decided that I need to do more. So in my local community I have set up ...
I'm 22 and have struggled most my life with selective mutism, depression and anxiety. And have spent all my school years trying to find out "what was wrong with me". I felt very di...
I thought I understood what depression and anxiety felt like. Now I know that I didn't have a clue. Until now...
Three months ago I eventually caved in and admitted that I was stre...
For as long a I can recall I've been told that there is light at the end of the tunnel. I'm still looking with every last bit of fight that I have within me as I know that the dark...
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