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Each month we are encouraging our bloggers to write about a themed topic. The topic for August is exercise.
We advise before submitting your blog to save your entry on a Word document - in case any technical issues arise. If you are experiencing issues, please email your entry to fundraising@sane.org.uk.
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It's the beginning of a new year. I've had a fantastic Christmas break. In a really great place mentally, and physically. it has been the first festive break, in many many years, t...
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I had a few weeks of quiet as my OCD recharged into finding a new way to scare me or make me uncomfortable. OCD is very much it's own entity. It is after all your mind, and how doe...
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When Sane UK asked me to write a blog article I did jump at the chance, thinking if I can at least help one person with my personal account of suffering mental illness, then it&rsq...
Having family members with mental health problems can be challenging. Following my brother’s diagnosis of Post traumatic stress disorder the first thing I did was read up about wha...
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After my fist six years of dealing with OCD, I thought I had it figured out. I didn't know what it was but I had learned to live with it, the way it was. And then it stopped being ...
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Often times when I talk about living with my disorder or my mental illness I refer to the fact that I have lived with this albatross for over thirty years. Sometimes, I am dumbfoun...
Hey all
Finding it a bit of a struggle at the moment, managed to get through Christmas (eventually) and now its New Year which seems to be drawing closer and closer :(
I managed to...
What if I could prove without contest that it really would be better for everyone if I just did it? Who could deny me then? Surely it would be okay if I could show you all that the...
Dear Ana,
When you approached me
I was as naive.
I truly believed you were helping me.
You told me to stop eating sweets and fat.
Me and parents had no problem with that.
You make ...
It was by mere chance that I was born this way. There was no divine plan, no omnipotent overseer of my fate. It seems to me to be a ludicrous pretension that any heavenly king woul...
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