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My voices, I mean the new ones - the ones that have been here for two years, as opposed to all the merry bunch of voiced I have had with me for, gee, twenty years now, are very dir...
Posted by
phen23rd Sep 2016
The mental health regime, that is government and health professionals, are very keen these days on emphasising how much they ‘care’ about us. Within the mental health regime it is ...
Posted by
barry-curtis18th Sep 2016
Everyone needs to talk. Since struggling with my anxiety for 4 years now I've realised that talking is the best thing that you can do. I can remember feeling so worried that people...
Posted by
lb2717th Sep 2016
What would you say to depression? I’m sure there are any number of responses to that question.
Perhaps simply, why? Why me? What did I do wrong? It’s only right to feel sad. After ...
Posted by
dirkgently106614th Sep 2016
I remember the first time I was hit with the over whelming sensation that something was different with me compared to my friends and family, I was in high school aged about 13? Thr...
Posted by
lxahm13th Sep 2016
Then too you cannot spend an hour alone;
No company's more hateful than your own
You dodge and give yourself the slip; you seek
In bed or in your cups from care to sneak:
In vain: ...
There's the question, isn't it?
It was something I was told over and over again, weren't you?
It always came down to forgive anything, excuse anything, allow anything because we ar...
Posted by
kazzmotive08th Sep 2016
Where to start.
From birth I was in a dark place with an alcoholic and abusive father who beat my mum and killed my baby brother. I married a placid and happy man who turned out to...
Posted by
desperado196206th Sep 2016
I have had a terrible year .all I wanted was to feel,think,behave normally.I was so pleased when diagnosed with emotional unstable personality disorder and PTSD.
3 hours later I ju...
Posted by
steve4803rd Sep 2016
Quite often my posts here are descriptions of my struggle with depression and anxiety. I've been tied up in knots of late grappling with the tail end of my marriage. I'm divorced b...
Posted by
AliceRitaK03rd Sep 2016