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  • Bye bye 2016

    Happy New Year! Or more accurately, I hope your new year has some really happy moments, less drama, less stress and that you’re healthy and surrounded by people who love you. Oh, and that you hear some really good music. I have had, by all accounts, a really good Christmas and New Year!! A REALLY…

  • Progress

    Progress is a funny thing, you can be making it without even realising and then one day you think, wow I’m doing this thing that I thought I couldn’t do! It can creep up on you, all those little things you’ve been determined to do. Slowly, quietly, all the times you drag yourself out somewhere…

  • “Your feelings are valid”, they said

    I’d often seen posts like this on Instagram or Facebook… Your feelings are valid, they said. How stupid, I thought. Of course your feelings are valid, why would anyone say they weren’t? Why would someone say that your feelings weren’t valid / credible / legitimate? Why would someone think that they knew how you should feel,…

  • 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…

  • I got a haircut

    Last week I had my hair cut. The last time I had my hair cut at the hairdressers was February 2015. A hairdressers is an anxious person’s nightmare because you’re stuck there. Obviously you’re not physically stuck there, no hairdressers (that I know of) superglue you to the seat. You could flee at any time,…

  • Mental Health Awareness Week – Relationships

    “Lean on me when you’re not strong And I’ll be your friend, I’ll help you carry on” This week is Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) in the UK, and the theme this year is relationships and how important they are. Here’s a short (ish… for me anyway!!) post about my take on mental health and…

  • Know Yourself

    This week hasn’t been the best. You don’t need details but I’ve struggled to eat, sleep or basically function. Middle-of-the-night panic attacks have left me looking like the living dead and I spent the best part of 3 days in bed because there was no reason not to. (If I’d actually slept for 3 days…

  • So you had a bad day…

    And then it got worse because you couldn’t remember the rest of the words to that song so you YouTube’d it and then it got stuck in your head. Anyway. Everyone has bad days. They usually start with accidentally turning off your alarm instead of snoozing, spilling your tea and losing your car keys before 8.30am.…

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