Mental Illness

The Media We Consume: Finding Balance Between Knowledge and Well-Being

I’ve been thinking lately about the type of media I like, why I choose to consume it and how it affects my mental health. This may be due to my new job in publishing, talking about…
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Fear, Uncertainty and Excitement: Beginning a New Adventure

This week I stepped into a world foreign to me. A whole new industry with its own language and culture. A role I have no experience in. For anyone, this would be an overwhelming and emotional…
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What If It Works Out? Confessions Of A Self-Described Pessimist

In the past, I’ve been almost proud of my pessimism. It wasn’t something I wore like a badge, but I knew my mind and thoughts tended to be more negative. Ironically I saw the positive sides…
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Breaking Free From Wallowing: How I’m Pulling Myself Out of a Rut with New Routines and Small Wins

As I wrote last week I recently had the epiphany that I’ve been wallowing in depression in an unhealthy manner that has left me feeling no control in my life. Thanks to the honest and loving…
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To Myself, with Tough Love: Breaking Free from Depression’s Comforting Embrace

I just celebrated my birthday on Halloween and I initially began writing this week’s post about how difficult I can find my birthday, my existential dread around time and basically how I feel like crap right…
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Quiet Anger: Navigating Life with an Invisible Fire

I’m easily irritated. A fire seems to eternally sizzle in my chest and with a small push, it scorches through my blood yet from the outside you could not tell. When I was looking into BPD…
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From Highs to Lows: Navigating Emotional Ups and Downs at Large Social Events

My best friend’s wedding is coming up in less than a week, and in the storm of getting ready for the big day as the maid of honour, I’ve neglected to think about the mental strain…
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Reevaluating My Mental Health Journey: Why I’m Considering Stopping Treatment

I recently went to an appointment for a medical review with the long-term mental health team I’m under. On arrival, I was told my coordinator was sick and therefore had gone home for the day, which…
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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…
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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…
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