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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…
The Black Dog of Addiction
For years it’s been hidden. Skulking in the shadows like some demented beast, kept on the leash of a linked chain and somehow content to be tied up. Until now. Now it’s fighting to break free with sharp teeth ready…
SUPPORT: Writing for World Mental Health Day
As anyone will know who has read my previous articles, I like to start by defining the subject about which I am talking and here I am, trying to define World Mental Health Day. I see little point in defining…
‘Don’t air your dirty laundry’
My mother’s casual words that day never struck me as particularly poignant. In that adolescent stage, I honestly didn’t really give a fuck. She was always saying things like that, when I look back I can see that they were…
POEM: I’m back in the game…
I’m back in the game But before I proclaim Let me tell you how I regained my own name Once filled with shame Lost faith in my flame It was time to reclaim My traumatized brain
POEM: Here’s a message for the warriors….
Here’s a message for the warriors The recovered strugglers My determined soldiers I SEE YOU…
POEM: Rhythmic insight……..
RECOVERY, await the tears It ain’t all meds and facing fears A flawless mess Ain`t that pretty I’m done here RECOVER NOW GET READY
POEM: Wonderful Happy Glorious me
Wonderful happy glorious me, NO hang on wait, that can not be, I’ve always been my own worst enemy, The hardest to please , With emotional needs, Unable to understand why I cant breed, Constantly battling selfish silent wars, Invisible…
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SUPPORTING ARTICLE & RADIO: Emotional Literacy Explained
Gill Seaton-Jardine is a Counsellor/Psychotherapist with over 20 years’ experience working with all ages, including young children. During these years she wrote and presented a ten-week course on emotional literacy to pre school age children to help them understand theirs,…
It’s Perfectly Okay to Not Always be Okay
For as long as I can remember, I have been “okay” according to society’s definition. Yet, I’ve experienced everything from the fear of sleeping as a young child, to the onset of terrifying obsessive thoughts as an adolescent, to the…
Healing Depression through the Art of Language
I was depressed for a long time, so I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror. What I saw there was a continuous reminder of what I wasn’t becoming, but therein lay the problem. I was stuck on this problem…
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…
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Letting the Child Grow Up
This is written to share experience of dis-ease of the mindbody and to support others in their own journeys of self-discovery, transformation, and manifestation. I have suffered chronic depression, anxiety, intrusive and sometimes suicidal thoughts and, in hindsight, quite an…
SUPPORT: Living with Uncertainty
This year has certainly been one of uncertainty and change, more than ever we have seen how external influences can impact our mental health and wellbeing. There are many ways we can support our wellbeing both individually and in workplaces…
Tales of a Patient’s Mental Health Journey
My advice to anyone going through mental illness is to allow love, friends and family into your life. Don’t shut people out when you are at your most vulnerable. It can be hard to do and you might want to…
Sorry I’m not your Perfect Victim
It was a warm summer evening; I was catching the bus with a friend back to her mums. A couple of guys start chatting to us and happen to be getting off at the same stop. We were 14, they…
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…
Could a Schooling Shakeup help Adolescent Mental Health?
A few decades ago I was in school, and although it feels like a lifetime ago, the emotions connected to my experience there are still very prominent. School was pure, unequivocal hell, painfully lonely, I couldn’t do anything right and…
Well aren’t we rather Lucky?
There is no denying that people with mental health issues suffer. And, for some, managing their mental health is a daily battle. Battles leave scars, but do these mental scars actually make us stronger?
The Reality of Psychosis – Beyond the TV Drama
A well mind can make the distinction between a vivid dream, an imagined scenario and waking reality. But a psychotic mind cannot separate what is real and what is not. I guess that’s what makes psychosis so frightening, and contributes…
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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Saviour – STRONG CONTENT WARNING
“Your mum is on her way,” says a distant voice, barely audible through the tirade of electromagnetic currents trafficking through my mind. I’m not sure, but I think I might be in a hospital. I’m not dead. At least, I…
The Lasting Impact
Mental health battles really began in secondary school, which is when my self harm began too. All hidden from anyone I knew of course. I helped others with their struggles but failed to acknowledge and care for my own, that…
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