I've spoken lots in the past about my anxiety, how crippling it was and how hard I worked to overcome it. Looking back, it was there for pretty much all of my adult life, even though at the time I…
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Anxiety. I had it for years before I really even knew that I did. For as long as I can remember, there has been that knot in my stomach, the feeling of doom always lingering around me, the urge to…
Self-soothing. This is one thing that made a HUGE difference to me when my anxiety and depression were crippling. Learning methods that I could use when I was upset, anxious, or going through a tricky patch was a real life-changer.…
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week, a week to talk about Mental Health. A timt to bring it into everyday conversation and to help to remove the stigma that still hovers over mental health issues. It is also a…
We all have 'those days' - days when nothing goes right, when you are overwhelmed and overwrought, when you wake up with a serious case of the 'mehs'. For years I'd let them control me, I'd see them as a…
Postpartum anxiety doesn't get talked about anywhere near as much as postpartum depression. And while I knew that I had PPD after my second child was born, postpartum anxiety never occurred to me. It's only been in the last three…
Sometimes it hits and you know why. Bereavement. Relationship breakups. Miscarriage. A myriad of other reasons. And sometimes it hits and there is no one reason. Depression doesn't only follow a traumatic experience. Sometimes it can hit us when everything…
It's only when you look back, with the benefit of time and distance, that you realise that day you thought was the worst day of your life, was actually the best. That out of the storm, something better has come. Yesterday…
Eighteen months ago I was in the grips of anxiety and depression, and I couldn't even imagine ever not feeling like that again. For too long I sat in that place, locked in an awful cycle of feeling awful, so…
One thing I've learned these past few months is that being open and honest can help others who are going through their own rough patches. Last September, when my world fell apart, I started talking, totally unplanned, and totally out…