anxiety Archives — The Invisible F

Mental health Moods

Facing death: anxiety and saying goodbye to Jens

My beautiful soul friend left this earthly plain today. I thought I would be anxious about her dying – death has always made me anxious……

Challenges

A night in the life of… an insomniac living with fibromyalgia

potofcallaloo October 4, 2021 2 Comments anxiety chest pain chronic health problems chronic pain fibromyalgia fibromyalgia and insomnia fibromyalgia and sleep fibromyalgia symptoms insomnia lack of sleep Mental health migraines sleep problems

Monday 4 October 2021, 1.27am Luckily for me I don’t have work later today, because it is 1.27am and I am wide awake. I am…

Challenges Depression Mental health

How a plant, a cat and conversation brought me from the brink of a mental precipice

potofcallaloo May 9, 2021 2 Comments anxiety Depression grief love Mental health Mental Health Awareness Week nature therapy suicidal ideation suicide

Last June, at the height of the covid-19 pandemic and lockdown, I wanted to die. Quite suddenly, I had lost my Ma. Grief fed my…

Meds & Remedies

I tried virtual reality with Healium for my anxiety…here’s how it went

potofcallaloo February 27, 2021 6 Comments anxiety Anxiety relief stress virtual reality virtual reality for anxiety virtual reality for stress VR VR for anxiety VR for mental health VR for stress VR treatment

With life resembling one of my dystopian stories in draft, I eagerly jumped at the opportunity to try out Healium, a channel that uses virtual…

Challenges Meds & Remedies

How not to lose your mind during the Coronavirus pandemic

potofcallaloo March 25, 2020 No Comments anxiety Coronavirus COVID-19 Depression pandemic

The Coronavirus is testing more than our resilience. It’s trying our humanity. My generation and many younger ones would not have experienced anything like it…

Challenges

Coping in a time of Coronavirus (COVID-19)

potofcallaloo March 16, 2020 No Comments anxiety corona corona mental health Coronavirus COVID-19 How to manage mental health during lockdown Mental health mentalhealth wellbeing

These are difficult times. As nations try to contain and curb the spread of the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic, there’s plenty of worrying going on about…

Challenges Moods

Dementia, suffering and chronic health problems

potofcallaloo September 27, 2019 4 Comments anxiety Borderline personality disorder BPD chronic health problems cptsd dementia Depression fibromyalgia grief immigration PTSD

I pray and I pray so hard, that God will help me to do more than just survive one day at a time. But this is all I can manage now.

Challenges Mental health

What do we live for? – Grief and chronic illness

potofcallaloo January 6, 2019 6 Comments anxiety effects of grief fibromyalgia grief grief and chronic illness insomnia love migraines pain

Someone said that grief is more or less when you have love to give to someone but they’re not there to receive it.

Challenges

Coping at Christmas 2018 (dealing with pain over the holidays)

potofcallaloo December 22, 2018 No Comments anxiety C-PTSD christmas coping Depression Mental health PTSD surviving Christmas trauma

Dealing with trauma, emotional pain and mental health problems is sometimes like that old wound that never fully heals. At this time of year it can be harder.