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Continue reading →: Who Am I Really? Exploring Identity Disturbance and Feeling Lost
When it was suggested that I may have Borderline Personality Disorder I started doing research. Obviously “doing your own research” isn’t always encouraged when it comes to medicine but I’ve always subscribed to the idea that knowledge is power. So I visited the websites of mental health charities and reputable…
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Continue reading →: Living with Gremlins and Wasps: Living with Mental Illness and The Time it’s Stolen
I tend to personify my mental illness although I’ve spent the last few years trying to think of it as a part of me that I can live with rather than an enemy personification can help put some distance between myself and mental illness. It can also give me something…
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Continue reading →: The Complexities of Mental Health Medication: A Personal Decade-Long Journey
I recently had a meeting at the Job Centre regarding some freelance work I picked up. During the interview, I mentioned that I’d had a break from work due to mental illness which resulted in hospitalisation. The person I was speaking to then asked if I was taking medication, which…
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Continue reading →: Confronting the Darkness: An Exploration of Self-Harm
This is a heavy topic and may be triggering for many people so please do not feel you have to read this if you may be negatively affected by it, however, I do believe it’s important that we speak about these more difficult aspects of mental illness. To hide from…
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Continue reading →: Navigating Life’s Uncertainties: Reflections on My Recent Mental Health Struggles
I’ll be honest with you: I had no idea what to write about this week. I have a list of ideas I keep on my phone that I should be able to pick from, but none of them connected with me. So this post may be a bit rambly and…
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Continue reading →: 5 Things I Do Everyday To Improve My Mental Health
Mental illness affects me every day as any chronic illness will. This can be hard to accept but over the years I’ve come to the realisation that instead of aiming to “cure” my mental illness I needed to manage it. This is why I try to say “I live with…
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