Tag: mental health

  • World Mental Health Day 2016 and a whole year of blogging

    Today (10th October 2016) is World Mental Health Day. It is also exactly a year since I started this blog. I’ve had the busiest weekend so my brain isn’t cooperating to create a decent post that’s worthy of WMHD. Instead I just wanted to thank everybody that’s read / shared my blog. I’ve had so many…

  • Agoraphobia

    Here are some things I reminiscence about; days on the beach in uni, the times when I could drink my bodyweight in spirits and not have to spend the next 3 days recovering, when I was fit enough to run 5k without too much trouble (yes I’m lazy), my friends’ beautiful wedding days, Irish dancing…

  • Am I going mad?

    Am I going mad? It’s a question I ask myself way too often. A couple of weeks ago I spent a whole afternoon sitting on the floor of my sisters’ bedroom convinced that I was going mad. The only things I was capable of doing was sitting on the floor and turning the radio up…

  • What happened when I couldn’t work anymore (claiming ESA)

    At the moment, I’m not well enough to work. In the past I have managed both part time and full time jobs with my anxiety, and worked both 9-5 hours and shifts, in busy places doing physically demanding and customer facing work. Having a mental illness has not stopped me from working, and I’m confident…

  • World Mental Health Day #endthestigma

    So I’ve finally got around to starting this blog that I’ve been meaning to write for about 3 years. It’s World Mental Health Day today and it’s all about ending the stigma that exists around mental health. I already wrote this post once and reading it back I realised it was mostly a rant that…