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Mental Health Awareness
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What Not To Say To Someone With Anxiety
Mental illness isn’t only difficult for the person with the diagnosis. It can also be difficult for friends and family too. As someone who’s had an anxiety disorder in the past, I’ve definitely noticed the …
6 Treatments For Anxiety & Stress
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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 …
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 …
Meet My March Advertisers!
AD | Another month and another advertisers post is upon us. It’s crazy how quickly it comes around to me writing another one of these posts when it feels like the previous one has only …
Dealing with anxiety and mobility on holiday *
If you’re a regular reader of this blog or you follow me on Twitter, you’ll know that I suffer with anxiety. It’s quite obvious really, I’ve spoken about it enough and I’m always as open …
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 …
The Winter Blues
This time of year can be magical and joyous and sparkly and happy but for a lot of people, including myself in the past, it can also be miserable and depressing and sad. Literally SAD. I’m …
Book review: Project Semicolon by Amy Bluel
*** Trigger warnings: Suicide, suicidal thoughts and mental illness *** Format: Uncorrected proof Publisher: Harper Links:Amazon UK | Goodreads Review: This doesn’t really have a blurb so I’ll just explain myself what Project Semicolon is …
Tips on helping you cope if you don’t like being home alone
I know this sound like a really childish thing to say but since being active on Twitter and open about my mental illness, I’ve seen people talk about things like this more and more. It’s …
Eating disorders aren’t always obvious: my experiences
*Trigger warning: eating disorders, disordered eating and vomit* I think this post has come at a convenient time as we’ve just seen the release of the Netflix original movie, “To The Bone”, this month – …
The Mental Health Tag
Gooood morning folks! Now, if you follow me or my blog you’ll know I am super open about my mental health problems and I’m a huge advocate for mental health awareness, ending the stigma and …