Category: Depression
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My journey with grief
I’ve experienced grief many times in my life. When I was 4 years old, I learnt what grief was after my Dad lost his brother. I couldn’t understand it of course, but I have vivid memories of my Dad howling on the sofa for many nights. All I could do was gingerly pat his arm,…
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Let’s get real about mental illness
I first started writing in 2018, as a way of coping with a diagnosis of Depression and Anxiety, after the death of my beloved Grandad and the ongoing stress of seeing my dad’s MS condition worsen. I often feel like the labels of ‘Depression’ and ‘Anxiety’ hide the true nature of how the conditions impact,…
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I’m back and I’m changing my antidepressants
Good morning guys and gals and general humans that read my blog. I hope you’re all doing well and have had a nice weekend. It’s appears I’m back with a bang on this blog – or back with less of a bang and more of a slump due to insane tiredness, but more on that…
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World Mental Health Day: Have my antidepressants stopped working?!
Today is World Mental Health Day. It is a day, recognised by the World Health Organisation on the 10th of October, and usually has a theme attached to it. This year, the World Federation for Mental Health, has set it to ‘Make Mental Health and Well-being for all a global priority’. As the conversation on…
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A message to my Grandad from Gili T, Indonesia
Recently, I was looking through some of the writings I’d made throughout my world travels. Today I went for lunch with my Grandma, I haven’t seen her in SO long and there’s a part of me that is so sad that he can’t join. I also haven’t seen a really good sunset around here in…
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It’s just you
I held myself tightly under the shower desperately trying to stop myself from shaking as the water soaked my hair and mixed with my tears. I couldn’t feel my arms. I couldn’t stop my legs trembling. I was half tempted to sit on the bath floor and yet desperately wanted to hold myself tightly; rock…
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MS AWARENESS WEEK: The 5 Things MS Has Taught Me
I’ve thought long and hard about the best way to write this for MS Awareness Week. Do I write facts? An account on how you’ve affected my life? Do I talk about how it’s only now, 22 years after my Dad first got diagnosed that I can barely even speak about a few of the…
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The Post Lockdown ‘Lose the pounds’ Phase – Why I’m Refusing To Listen
Looking at me, I don’t think you would assume I ever suffered from an eating disorder. In fact, looking at me and judging me at face value, I would assume you’d think I had it all together – mentally that is. But nobody – absolutely NOBODY – has it all together, in any sense of…
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My Mental Health Journey in Tier 4 Restrictions
As we start the countdown to New Year’s Eve 2020 (oh the joy), I’ve realised how anxious I’ve become since we heard the announcement that London was being thrown into Tier 4 restrictions. It’s becoming steadfastly more and more mentally exhausting to remain upbeat, when you’re being told the virus is spreading like wildfire and…
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