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Remembering my Ma

Two years ago I had planted sunflowers to feel closer to my Ma, who had green thumbs. She loved plants and had a plant nursery, when…

Challenges

I’ve been lonely all my life – Mental Health Awareness Week 2022

potofcallaloo May 10, 2022 No Comments loneliness lonely Mental health mental health awareness Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 MHAW22

For most of my life I’ve felt alone and lonely. I never realised this was a thing, it’s just how I’ve always felt and I…

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Why do we stay?

potofcallaloo February 16, 2022 No Comments Depression how to support someone who is suicidal Mental health mental health support suicide awareness suicide awareness training suicide prevention you are loved

I wish there was an easy answer to this. For those of us who struggle, who want to leave, who don’t feel like we belong.

Meds & Remedies

I tried floatation therapy for the first time

potofcallaloo November 17, 2021 No Comments floatation tank floatation tank benefits floatation therapy floatation therapy for anxiety and stress floatation therapy for chronic pain floatation therapy for fibromyalgia Mental health sensory deprivation tank

I wasn’t sure what to expect when I agreed to try a floatation tank for the first time. Without knowing much about it, just seeing the tank with the soothing blue lighting gave me the feeling that the future was here and I was stepping into a science fiction novel.

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…

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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…

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Why World Mental Health is even more important this year

potofcallaloo October 10, 2020 No Comments Mental health mental wellbeing wellbeing WMHD World mental health day world Mental Health Day 2020

World Mental HealthDay 2020. Where to even start?

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How painting mindfully is helping me to cope during tough times

potofcallaloo June 8, 2020 4 Comments art art therapy fibromyalgia Mental health mindfulness paint by numbers

*I received a paint by numbers kit in exchange for an honest review* Last week, on the morning of my 35th birthday, my beloved grandmum…

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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…

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Trauma retriggered

potofcallaloo December 12, 2019 2 Comments C-PTSD Depression Mental health mental health problems PTSD trauma

Right now I do not know what tomorrow holds but I’ve made it till now. I’ve plastered up the cracks and glued together the broken bits. That is a victory. Till the next day.