10 Reasons Why You Are Enough You are enough because you were chosen to exist. Whether by God or Buddha or whatever you do/don’t place your faith in, you are here. You have a purpose and you should try to understand what it is.•You are enough because you have something else to offer. A killer …
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Self Care: Vital not Vain
elf Care I was reminded today that people shouldn’t be ashamed to take antidepressants. If you were diabetic, you’d take your insulin. If you were lacking in Vitamin D, you’d take supplements. So why, if you’re lacking in serotonin, do you struggle to take antidepressants? Self care is so bloody important; it matters over every …
Imagine Being Blamed for Cancer…
It’s Mental Health Awareness Month. I invite all my Facebook friends to afford the same compassion you do for physical difficulties to mental health difficulties. Cancer, for example, affects 1 in 5…mental health 1 in 4 and that’s just the cases we know about. It is more prevalent in society than cancer and yet society …
No Judgement, Thanks
This has to be the biggest lesson I learned in 2017. I realised that my decisions I was making, I was making for me. Of course I considered other people’s views and opinions but ultimately I had to sit down and evaluate where my life was going, and most importantly who with. I cut a …
I Choose Recovery
I chose recovery. I chose hope. I chose to be bigger and better than my demons. I don’t think this battle will ever be “over” but I’m definitely winning it. I might stumble and fall but I get back up. I fight. Every day I wake I am fighting to be a better me, a …
Authenticity of Mental Health
I don’t fake being sick. I fake being well. I do it for society’s benefit. I do it for the people who don’t believe in, or who judge, mental illness. I plaster a smile on when I feel like crying. I put on my mask. I try my best. The sad thing is if I …
Empty Cup
“Sure, I’ll do that for you. Yeah course, I don’t mind sitting up til 2am counselling you. Don’t you worry, I’ll put that kettle on and be your sounding board” I DO NOT mind doing the above. In fact, it takes me away from my own problems and I will freely give you my time, …
Glamorising Mental Health
Bulimia isn’t a tragic young girl with her head hung over a toilet looking beautiful. It’s a puffed, miserable face with vomit dripping from the chin and a nose bleed. Anorexia isn’t a slim figure shyly refusing a cupcake. It’s getting Hair across your malnourished and freezing body. Depression isn’t a model with mascara stains …
The Warrior Within 