Tag: anxiety
How to get moving with fibromyalgia – Mental Health Awareness Week 2024
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The theme for Mental Health Awareness Week this year is Moving for our mental health. As extreme tiredness (fatigue) and pain are two of the main symptoms of fibromyalgia, many of us struggle with physical activity.
Facing death: anxiety and saying goodbye to Jens
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My beautiful soul friend left this earthly plain today. I thought I would be anxious about her dying – death has always made me anxious… but not this time, surprisingly.
A night in the life of… an insomniac living with fibromyalgia
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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 sleepy, tired even, but wide awake. If I had work, all now I’d be dreadfully accepting that if sleep didn’t come and soon, I’d have…
How a plant, a cat and conversation brought me from the brink of a mental precipice
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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 chronic depression and suicidal ideation. For years Ma wistfully told me on the phone how she longed to see my face, and how “you come…
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