Today is World Mental Health Day. Please reflect on what you can do to increase understanding of mental health problems and actions to reduce stigma. By sharing your thoughts you e...
Hello,
I am writing this after a week off from work. I was off sick and are going back soon. I NEEDED to get away from work and all of the stress I have to put up with or I might h...
How can you talk about an illness noone can see,an illness that people would rather ridicule than understand,an illness i myself struggle to understand,yet it dominates my very bei...
I invite you to my website www.alianco.co.uk it tells of my journey with depression through choppy seas towards calmer shores. I'm 50 next year and so it is a celebration of the jo...
Hope : an expectant desire; to trust with confidence; to look forward to with trust (English concise dictionary).
Don't ever give up hope. Sailing the rough seas of mental health i...
Today is Wednesday. I am off work and feeling ill. I've got a flu type bug and I keep feeling like I want to blackout. I felt shaky earlier. It's not sunny today so staying in on t...
There she sits on the bench by the dark murky water in the pond
Where the cloak of loneliness that enfolds around her wearily
This cloak is her robe of rejection and weighs heavily...
So, I've been suffering from depression since I was 16, I'm now 26. I had my first psyhotic breakdown at 16 and I did not get the help that I needed. I continued at school but I wa...
When I was first diagnosed with suffering from Manic Depression, or Bi-polar mood disorder, in 1988, I did not believe it and had never heard of this condition. I simply felt I nee...