I’m Fine Thanks

Long time no see. But I’m back with an update. What better time to resurrect the blog than in lockdown when people are bored enough to read it ey. Since Sept 2018 there have been some changes. Some things happened, many things, but I’ll fill you in on the big ones. They’re 1. Mum, I’m…

I’m doing well, but I’m not ‘well’. I’ve been doing really well lately. I’ve managed to do things that I haven’t done in a very long time. I’m making progress and feeling proud of that. But I’m also acutely aware that this can make it look like I’m ‘better’. I was on a date last…

It’s been quite a while since I updated this blog and I’ve been feeling guilty for neglecting it. In a strange series of events, I had lots of good mental health related things happen around October last year. Through the power of Twitter, and the wonderful Yvette Caster, I had an article about agoraphobia published…

2 years ago, on World Mental Health Day 2015, I published my first blog post on here. Writing this blog has been eye opening, difficult, liberating and a pleasure. Thank you to every single person who has visited here, read my posts, shared them and related to them. For this years WMHD, I am proud…

When I was looking back through my phone to see what I’d been up to since April, when I last wrote what I’d been up to before that, it turned out to be quite a lot – also soooo many photos of animals and screenshots of memes… I was thinking, I’m doing well at the…

Surviving or thriving is this year’s theme for Mental Health Awareness Week, with the Mental Health Foundation. They have found that few people are really thriving when it comes to our minds; current levels of ‘good’ mental health are very low. Too many of us are just surviving, and the MHF is looking at what we…

I watched the documentary Mind Over Marathon this week, where 10 people with varying mental illnesses were challenged to run the London Marathon as part of the Heads Together campaign. The marathon always make me cry; so many people putting themselves through hell to raise money for amazing causes and often with really inspiring stories.…

So, I haven’t posted anything since February. I have a lot of half written posts, and a lot of ideas, but haven’t been able to finish anything. So, here’s me getting out of a rut by writing some rubbish (soz). As usual, life is a rollercoaster (must be sung in Ronan Keating way). Past couple…

*Disclaimer – this is about my personal experience, everyone experiences depression differently* My approach to depression, and my mental health in general, is summed up by that title. You have to laugh or you’d cry. I tried to write about depression when I was in the middle of it and I physically couldn’t because I…

Time to Talk is an event run by the Time to Change campaign – a movement that aims to change how we think and act about mental health. They receive funding from the Department of Health, Comic Relief and the Big Lottery Fund and is run by the charities Mind and Rethink Mental Illness, with…