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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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I could use a little sleep each night, instead I go for walks and being drawn to my local cemetery where I'll sit until 4 in the morning. I try to be logic but all my logic's have ...
I started writing about my mental health struggles in 2010, when I was still reeling from finding out that my 'emotional issues' had a name and could be understood by someone outsi...
I recently began writing as a way to process my past pain.
I wrote this within 5 minutes and when I read it back it still doesn't quite hit home that it was my reality as a child o...
Over the last ten years or so there have been a lot of initiatives to raise awareness of mental health issues in society and various organisations and institutions like hospitals, ...
It has now been almost 12 months to the day that I was discharged from a psychiatric hospital. This last year has undoubtedly been the best year of my life, and I have my stay in h...
I was told, not so long ago, by someone I used to consider a friend, that I am always blaming others for my situation – that I ‘fail to take responsibility’. I also had my ex tell ...
A weird feeling came over me recently. It took me a while to realise what it was, it felt so alien, so unfamiliar.
I was happy.
But this is a strange happiness. A realistic happine...
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I have never been accused of being fancy. I am not a high maintenance kinda gal. I have never paid for a pedicure (my feet are way too ticklish for that). I have rarely gone to an ...
Had a dream last night. I was in a zombie apocalypse and I was in my house trying to save my cat from a two headed pit bull dog zombie that growled at me but didn't attack, I don't...
So, its been a while since I've been this bad- the worse part is I have no idea why I feel like this. Isn't that what most people feel? I mean I have no reason to feel low, I have ...
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