This is my first video rant and is on the topic of managing mental health and how much diagnosis can help in understanding and managing mental illness. I did start to write this as an article but I decided to try something new, so ignore the anxious hand waving and bad angle – I’ll … More Diagnosis and managing mental health
Overwhelmed and unable to do anything about it, I flounder around for relief and comfort that my torn and tormented brain won’t accept. Rest is needed but cannot be achieved until duties are fulfilled, work is needed but cannot be completed until there is rest. Balancing acts of precarious necessities as I try to get … More In Search of Still Waters
The sky is too blue and goes on forever, further than the human mind can imagine. The birds sound wrong. The buildings loom and cage. The air is tasteless. My feet are numb against the ground as I walk, the impact is too soft. Not there. Not real. I scrape at my skin, grip at … More Walking
I am a mother. Telling people this still makes me nervous, and my son is six years old now. I had him at nineteen. He lives with my mum. He stays with me one night a week. I’m not with his dad anymore, and have no input on his seeing or not seeing his dad. … More Good Enough
It’s just chemistry, Just hormones and electrical impulses, Just biological reactions that tighten my throat and chest There’s nothing mystical, nothing evil about the feeling that crawls up my spine, tensing my muscles as it goes. It’s just chemistry, Just biology, just my own body working against me.
Anxiety is not “I worry that people don’t like me” Anxiety is not “I’m nervous” Anxiety is not “I’m shy” Anxiety is choking, breathing fast because you’ve never been on this bus before and every second you’re on it is like drowning Anxiety is clawing at your skin until it bleeds because the … More Anxiety is Not
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