You will get tired of being sick. That’s ok. Totally ok. Own it. Take time. Rest. And get back to work.
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Category: Mental health
Musings on suicide: love might save a life
…every day I decide to live, another person, someone, chooses to die. Their struggle is my struggle, but they have now gone while I still have a chance…
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When living is hard …RIP Avicii
For some of us, it is because we are searching…searching for something, some place that we are not quite sure of or how to get to. And sometimes it is because some of us have never managed to be truly happy.
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The messy side of mental health problems : what the media & campaigns don’t show
I was surprised to find myself largely neutral to the widespread mental health campaigns being run to raise awareness. I’ve seen many of these, encouraging…
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‘Fibromylgia and wanting to die’ – World Suicide Prevention Day
It is by complete coincidence that I’m posting this on World Suicide Prevention Day. I drafted this post last week because I was looking at…
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Hello depression my old friend…
My Aunty has died. For a moment all I could hear was white noise. And my world, which has been feeling more and more like…
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Promises that must be kept
Right now I am thinking about the unconventional therapist who first, offered me her pot of yellow roses, then insisted on her beautiful cactus. “You…
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Robbed
I was robbed eight nights ago. The incident opened up a deluge of emotions I’d tucked safely away where I couldn’t access them.
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Time to talk
Today is ‘Time to talk’ day. Until my late 20s, I hadn’t realised the importance of talking about mental health.
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It’s ok not to be ok this Christmas
I get why people like Christmas. I really do. People celebrate family, love, and togetherness. It’s supposedly the ‘happiest time of the year.’ But for many…
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