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  • 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…

  • Time to Talk Day 2016

    If you haven’t heard of it before, Time to Talk is an anti-stigma campaign run by the charities Rethink and Mind and it aims to encourage conversations about mental health. 1 in 4 people in the UK have some kind of mental health problem / illness / whatever you want to call it (I swap…

  • Christmas – thank God it only comes once a year…

    I have successfully navigated Christmas and New Year and have now just got January (officially the most depressing month of the year) to get through before we are well into 2016. High five me. Christmas is always a bit of a weird one. It can be a logistical nightmare, and is hard for various reasons. But…

  • A hug makes everything better

    My world recently got turned upside down when I lost one of my best friends very suddenly. Something like this puts everything into perspective. She had been one of my best friends for around 15 years and I am heartbroken. Our group of friends feels broken, like a puzzle we finished years ago and now…

  • I’m anxious because I’m anxious

    So it seems to be a theme that I spend ages writing something and editing it only to scrap it and write something entirely different. I tried writing about when I first started suffering with anxiety but the ins and outs of that proved to be a bit too emosh and I couldn’t face it.…

  • 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…

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