Saturday 25 April 2015

Five Ways I've Learnt to Deal with a Bad Day

I feel like I've come a long way from the beginning of this blog already. Although it's been less than four months, I can say that seriously sitting down and evaluating how I can overcome some pretty long-standing issues with my mental health has been highly rewarding.

But in no way has it been easy. In fact, I probably had the biggest relapse in the form of a severe panic attack - seemingly from no-where. Yet I haven't looked back since and this refusal to give in to anxiety is very empowering.

So, from my journey thus far, here are my top five ways I've learnt to prevent a bad day.

Thursday 2 April 2015

Do you make mental illness your 'possession'? Well, read this.

One thing I've come to find problematic about the dialogue of mental illness is how people make reference to it.

Just to add a little disclaimer to this, as I don't wish to upset anyone - this post is NOT to penalise or criticise anyone. You can talk about mental illness however you feel most fit, as long as we're talking about!