TRIGGER WARNING: Strong suicide, self harm, bipolar, depression focus. Sometimes I wonder if I’ll make it. My dad didn’t. He took his own life at 57, plummeting from a cliff’s edge, alone. I guess he had a nice view in…
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RADIO: The Business of Inspiring a Movement
Erik DaRosa, known as “Yoda” to friends and clients, is an inspirational speaker and both the Founder and Co-host of mental health focused podcast, From Survivor to Thriver. In 2011, Erik traded in a successful career as a New York…
RADIO: The Business of Philosophy & Mental Health
Jamie Ryder, Owner at Stoic Atheneum, is a mental health copywriter interested in the crossovers between mental health and philosophy. On The Business of Philosophy & Mental Health Jamie outlines his personal discovery of philosophy, how it has helped with…
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PODCAST: Anonymous Story Sharing with MA Founder Wizzi Magnussen
Listen to our founder Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen on Open Journal Blogcast with Mike Douglas. Episode Description: Wizzi joins us today to share some of her lived experiences with mental health illness. Wizzi also introduces us to Minds Anonymous and some…
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RADIO: The Business of the Richmond Fellowship A Year on Follow Up
Darren Ayres has worked in mental health for 22 years both within Acute and Community settings. His specialist employment service The Richmond Fellowship is commissioned by NHS England to support people with mental ill health both into paid employment and…
Toxic Relationship
So before i say anything, I know this story is kind of messed up but I just need to speak about it. August 2020 was the first time I met him, to keep his identity private well call him Kyle….
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PODCAST/VIDEO: Founder Wizzi Magnussen’s Story
Louisa “Wizzi” Magnussen: “I didn’t know that anything was wrong” Wizzi Magnussen, the Founder and Owner at Minds Anonymous, which provides a safe space to share mental health stories anonymously, and Wizmedia, a website design and copywriting company, struggled as a child…
RADIO: The Business of Mental Health Conversations
Erik DaRosa, known by friends and clients as “Yoda,” is the Founder and Co-host of the From Survivor to Thriver podcast. Along with his Co-host Marc Fernandes, they aim to normalize discussions around mental health topics through honest and relatable…
Lonely
I’m lonely. I’m in my 40s and really don’t think I have any friends. I have people I hang out with, sure. But if it came balls to the wall, not so sure that anyone would be interested, apart from…
SUPPORT: Connectedness to Tackle Loneliness
By Gill Jardine, Counsellor/Psychotherapist When considering the subject of loneliness and how to tackle it, it may be useful to first try to understand what loneliness is. Loneliness is a feeling, an emotion, which is probably experienced by everyone at…
SUPPORT: Making sense of Mental Health Struggles: The ‘Stress Bucket’ Analogy – Free Audio Book Available
Struggling with our mental health is hard enough, but often the experience is made worse by a side dish of questions and self-criticism. Why is this happening to me? What does it mean? I am weak? Mad? Bad? The reality…
SUPPORT: Relationships and the Pandemic – A Follow up Guide – Free Audio Book Available
We keep hearing the expression ‘household’ recently, talking about what a ‘household’ is allowed to do and what it is not allowed to do. The reason for this is that the government are constantly measuring the effect of the virus…
SUPPORT: Relationships and the Pandemic – Free Audio Book Available
Firstly, what is a ‘pandemic’? We can break the word down into two parts 1. pan and 2. demic. According to the Collins English Dictionary ‘pan’ means ‘all or every’ or ‘relating to all parts or members’, the ‘demic’ part…
Managing Depression
We all know well the typical symptoms of depression, low mood and energy, sometimes to the point of being unable to get up and go to work or even look after your own personal hygiene, but there are so many…
Redundancy – Am I Grieving?
Like so many others, I have been made redundant. I loved the job. I like to think I was good at it, but apparently not that good – or so my mind will lead me to believe. In my head…
I Forgive me
I had a meltdown the other night. After apologising to the people that love me, one suggested I write a letter of forgiveness to myself – and try to stop saying sorry. I always apologise for myself, my feelings, my…
Anxiety Abroad: Dealing, or not, with Generalised Anxiety Disorder while Working Abroad
I think I’m OK. But there’s something nagging me. I’m not sure what it is, but I just don’t trust anything that these people say to me. Why are they looking at me like that? Why do they think that…
Stop, Drop and Roll: Tips for an Overstimulated Mind
I feel low, sad, depressed and have barely got the energy to write this article. As soon as I’ve finished putting finger to key I’ll be implementing stop, drop and roll, but first I want to share this technique with…
SUPPORT: Understanding Mental Health and Mental Illness
In this first edition to our supporting articles series, we will attempt to demystify some of the terminology used in this area. Outlining what we mean by mental health and looking into how to recognise the signs of mental illness….
COVID-19: My Psychological Safety Mask
I am anxious, and leaving the house is tough. You’d think that a global pandemic would exaggerate these problems, with a killer disease, we have yet to understand or come up with a vaccine for, on the loose. But this…
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