the good, the bad and the ugly of life with mental illness
I explained most of my reasons for blogging in my first ever blog. It is a way I want to help people to cope with and understand mental illness (understanding even if they don't have mental illness). So this is a very short blog just trying to get other people's opinions and outlooks. What inspired... Continue Reading →
On A-level results day I was so so nervous about my results. I had missed a significant amount of the last year due to my mental illness and did not in the slightest feel prepared for my exams. But to my (and everyone else's) surprise, I achieved ABB in biology, chemistry and physics respectfully. I... Continue Reading →
As I mentioned in a previous blog, a major part of my anxiety is a phobia. My phobia probably sounds weird to a lot of people but I have a phobia of throwing up. The official term for this is emetophobia with emet coming from the Greek (I think?) for vomiting. In this blog I... Continue Reading →
I'm 18 years old. I have been diagnosed with anxiety, depression and PTSD. The world around me suggests that my illness is something that I should be ashamed of- but I'm not. My mental illness does definitely have the ability to control me but it does not stop me from being a normal person underneath... Continue Reading →
So. Anxiety. Yeah that's a thing. Anxiety is as you probably know, a mental illness that can manifest itself in many different ways. In this post I want to highlight what having anxiety is actually like- social media and just a general lack of talking about the subject can give people many wrong misconceptions about... Continue Reading →
my life with mental illness 