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Who Am I Without My Anxiety Disorder?
ad // I don’t write these generally rambling and personal blog posts often. But this is something that’s been on my mind, more of less since the New Year. And I’m still not quite sure …
9 Things I Want To Do When COVID-19 Is Over
I don’t often write these spur of the moment posts anymore. You know, when you just feel like you NEED to write to get out of your own head? We’re into week 2 of lockdown …
6 Months On Citalopram: Why Anxiety Medication Was The Best Decision For Me
Last year, in July, I hit a really low patch with my anxiety. My anxiety which, I thought, was getting better. In a way it was – at least I wasn’t scared to do EVERYTHING …
Health Anxiety: How Does It Affect Me & How Can We Manage It?
Hypochondria. It’s a word with not many positive connotations. It’s a word we use to describe kids who frequently bust out the crocodile tears or over-dramatic people who are looking for attention for the most …
Calming Your Nerves: My Number 1 Strategy for Managing Anxiety
Before I was ever diagnosed with anxiety, I’ve always been a bit of a worrier. I remember when I was around 9 years old, my best friend at the time asked me to spend the …
Improve Your Confidence When You Suffer From Low Self Esteem (& discount code!)
GIFTED | Ever since I can remember, I’ve suffered from low self esteem. It never stemmed from anywhere, really. No-one was mean to me in school. Nothing ever happened to trigger it. It just was. …
Benefits of Spending Time Alone: 10 Things I’ve Learned
For someone who, when their anxiety was at it’s worst, would crumble at the notion of spending time alone – I very much enjoy it now. Being alone in the house would render me essentially …
5 Simple Ways to Manage Anxiety During Social Events (& Discount Code!)
AD | I’m very open about my mental health and the struggles I’ve had with anxiety over the last seven years. It’s been one heck of a journey for me and a journey that I …
Let’s Talk About… Anxiety
AD | I’ve always been very open and honest about my mental illness on my blog and have written a plethora of posts around different areas of anxiety in the past, mostly information which I’ve …
My ‘Anti-Anxiety’ Bucket List *
#AD It’s absolutely no secret by now that I’ve suffered with Generalised Anxiety Disorder for a good 6 or so years. I’ve spoke about it on my blog multiple times and I always mention it on …
Regaining responsibility after anxiety
Anxiety disorder can take a lot away from us; our ability to socialize and enjoy ourselves, to go to work, our confidence, our self-esteem, our physical health as well as our mental health, our responsibilities …
Christmas Wellbeing Tips: 5 Ways To Look After Your Mental Health
AD GIFTED PRODUCTS // It’s been drilled into our heads ever since we were born that Christmas is the time to, ‘eat, drink and be merry!’ That it’s the ‘most wonderful time of the year’ …
Some things I sorta kinda like about myself
I don’t mean to sound awfully dramatic but this is a really difficult post for me to write. I’ve opened up about my mental health and self-esteem problems before so if you wanna catch up …
Simple ways I’ve made my anxiety a little more manageable
Anxiety sucks. There’s no two ways about it. It can be overwhelming, entirely consuming and completely life-changing and I’ve certainly experience all 3 of those feelings since I developed Generalised Anxiety Disorder in 2011. I …
How I cope in times of stress
I blog about mental health a lot and I’m totally open about my anxiety and how it affects me. Which is bad. Sometimes. I think during my anxiety journey, I’ve learnt a lot about how …