This post is now on YouTube I recently uploaded my first YouTube video addressing different techniques that can be used to make it easier to talk about mental health needs with people who have little or no understanding of the … Continue reading When Someone Reaches Out To You (Revisited)
In this post I will be exploring both the diagnostic criteria for anxiety, how it manifests, and how it feels and my own experience being signed off work with anxiety. What is Anxiety Anxiety is a lot more than just … Continue reading What is Anxiety? Diagnostic Criteria and My Personal Experience
Reaching out about mental health problems is extremely difficult, but it is also extremely difficult to be on the receiving end. Especially if, like most, you don’t know what you can do or say and don’t want to do the … Continue reading What To Avoid Saying When Someone Reaches Out To You About Mental Health
In this post I will be sharing a run down of symptoms I start to experience in the early stages of bipolar depression. So a bit of background. I haven’t posted in ages, I’ve had either nothing or too much … Continue reading The Early Stages of Depression
Last week I started to tackle the negative inner voice, you know the one, the one that makes you feel so much worse than what is probably justified, or makes you feel terrible when it isn’t justified. The technique I … Continue reading Changing Inner Dialogue 1 Week Update
Looking after myself better is something I recently discovered through a previous post that I need to do some serious work on to start to feel safe in myself. In this post I identified a greater need to fulfill my … Continue reading Changing negative inner dialogue
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