Posts about mental health.
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.” ~ Jennifer Niven Mental illness is not... > ...your… Continue reading Mental Illness Is Not…
“I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave, and what their neighbors need to do to be on the side of the good.” ~ Neil… Continue reading You Know They’ve Been Putting ‘Trigger Warnings’ On DVD Cases For Years, Right?
"Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragon's exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." ~ Neil Gaiman So, last week in my advice to those who may be new to this whole mental illness thing I suggested reading some of the many books and blogs out… Continue reading Mental Healthish Writings That I Like
(Image source: Getty Images) “I thought the doctor's diagnosis was the first step to mending her. I know now that a diagnosis is taken in like an orphaned dog. We brought it home, unsure how to care for it, to live with it. It raised its hackles, snarled, hid in the farthest corner of the… Continue reading My Advice To The Newly Diagnosed
“At heart, I have always been a coper, I've mostly been able to walk around with my wounds safely hidden, and I've always stored up my deep depressive episodes for the weeks off when there was time to have an abbreviated version of a complete breakdown. But in the end, I'd be able to get… Continue reading We Need To Be Able To Fit Work Around Our Health
"I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival." ~ Audre Lorde Self care, previously known as being nice to and doing nice things for yourself, is greatly stressed as being important in managing mental illness but it's actually pretty important for everybody. We… Continue reading Self Care: 15 Suggestions
(Image via Planned Parenthood: How To Use Menstrual Products Superpost) “Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.” ~ Paracelsus So, I had a conversation the other day with the lovely Karina about menstrual products and how applicator tampons aren't really a thing where she lives in Germany, while they're pretty commonplace here in the UK. Midway through this conversation… Continue reading Ever Wondered How Everyone Else Deals With Their Period?
"It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age." ~ Amanda Seyfried I'm nowhere near as anxious now as I was for the first, oo, maybe thirty years of my life; when I was walking around with a permanent knot of fear in my stomach… Continue reading 5 Lies My Anxiety Told Me
image source: wikimedia "I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that I'm fine." ~ Gail Devers Do you need to get your thyroid checked? I only ask because I had no idea that I did until after I had it done, last week. I had a… Continue reading Do You Need To Get Your Thyroid Checked?
(Getty Images) “Bad enough to be ill, but to feel compelled to deny the very thing that, in its worst and most active state, defines you is agony indeed.” ~ Sally Brampton Some time earlier this year, I can't remember exactly when, around the time that Germanwings pilot deliberately crashed his plane, I decided that I… Continue reading Start A Conversation Today
Make-Up & Mirtazapine 