the good, the bad and the ugly of life with mental illness
So mental illness in general is pretty misunderstood. It has only recently become more prevalent in the media, but it is still a very taboo subject and I feel like the media sometimes either plays the situation up or down depending on the viewer they want to reach out to. News channels will usually play... Continue Reading →
Although my anxiety can get bad, there are things that help to take the edge of and help me chill out. In this blog I hope to describe these things and explain why each of these is so helpful to me. 1. Family I am very lucky to have extremely supportive parents. They have helped... 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 