Tag: Mental Health Awareness
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When ‘life’s too short’ stops you from living
Hello everyone! Wow it’s been a while since I’ve written on here, which seems to be the starting sentence for the most ‘recent’ blogs. In short, I’ve felt like I haven’t been able to write about anything positive to do with mental health, when there are often times I’m really battling with it. It would…
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Beat the Winter Blues: Tips for When You’re Unable to Travel
Hello reader. I am ill. I am feeling sorry for myself. I am wrapped in a blanket, unable to speak and still in my pyjamas. Actually, I was going to name this blog ‘I feel like sh*t, so I wrote a blog’ but thought that wouldn’t do very well with SEO. Instead, like any British…
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Summer’s Challenge: Managing fitness after an eating disorder
Trigger Warning: Eating Disorders Hey folks, It’s going to be a short but sweet post today. I’m currently feeling the endometriosis pangs and haven’t actually slept a wink so that’s been all fun and games but I feel an urge to write about how I’m feeling so, despite the fact my website still isn’t 100%…
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5 Things That Really Helped With My Mental Health
Mental Health Awareness Week 2024 Although travelling for me was now quite a few years ago, I really owe that entire experience for helping with my mental health. I’m not being (at least I’m trying extremely hard not to be) a total cliché right now, but I do think a big part of helping mental…
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The Anxiety Escape: 3 Ways That Travelling Transformed my Mindset
This week commencing Monday 15th May 2023 kickstarts Mental Health Awareness Week, a week and initiative dedicated to spreading awareness of mental illness and highlighting the support available for those struggling. The theme of the week this year will be ‘anxiety’, something I’ve dealt with and continue to deal with in various forms. As promised,…
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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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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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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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5 Things Which May Make Lockdown Less Intense
HELLO LOCKDOWN MY OLD FRIEND. What an entire sh*tshow 2020 has been. There’s no beating around the bush here – it’s been dire. As if a world ravaged by a virus hasn’t been enough of a challenge, we’re all on tenterhooks waiting for election results, James Bond has died and terror attacks are being thrown…
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