Blogging & Online

I’ve Joined Snapchat!

Sarah

I am now ladymirtazapine on Snapchat - the same as my Twitter and Instagram handles.

Food, Other Recipes

Lamb, Chickpea and Spinach Casserole

Sarah

"Chickpeas are one of my favourite things to serve with chorizo or lamb meatballs; they also work brilliantly as the quiet partner in a vibrant alphonso mango salad." ~ Yotam Ottolenghi   So, over the weekend I had some diced lamb shoulder and spinach that were both, erm, shall we say a little over their… Continue reading Lamb, Chickpea and Spinach Casserole

Food, Quick meals

Quinoa And Pomegranate Salad With Sweetly Sour Pork

Sarah

"If you want to lose weight whole-wheat bread, couscous, and quinoa are evil." ~ Jorge Cruise I've had cellulitis for the last few weeks, so I've been feeling too rubbish to articulate ideas properly or concentrate on reading anything more complicated than a cook book. So I've been thinking a lot about food. In the… Continue reading Quinoa And Pomegranate Salad With Sweetly Sour Pork

Books, TV, Movies & Music, Mental health, Mental Health & Wellbeing

You Know They’ve Been Putting ‘Trigger Warnings’ On DVD Cases For Years, Right?

Sarah

“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?

Blogging & Online, Books, TV, Movies & Music, Mental health, Mental Health & Wellbeing

Mental Healthish Writings That I Like

Sarah

"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

Mental health, Mental Health & Wellbeing

My Advice To The Newly Diagnosed

Sarah

(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

Mental health, Mental Health & Wellbeing, Physical health, Working

We Need To Be Able To Fit Work Around Our Health

Sarah

“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

Life, Living, Mental health

Self Care: 15 Suggestions

Sarah

"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

#StartAConversation, Menstruation, Contraception, and Gynaecology, Mental Health & Wellbeing

Ever Wondered How Everyone Else Deals With Their Period?

Sarah

(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?

#StartAConversation, Mental health, Mental Health & Wellbeing

5 Lies My Anxiety Told Me

Sarah

"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