Browsing Tag 'mental health'
Thank you Reality Hide and Seek for bringing this to my attention. I had no idea about this project but it’s definitely something I want to be involved in, anything that helps to end stigma is a good thing in my eyes. You can find out more about it and how you can take part [...]
Yesterday we went shopping. Don’t think I can’t hear you rolling your eyes going “no one cares that you went shopping, Livi.” I know. But the difference this time was I went shopping feeling borderline, Google it if you’re so inclined, and man was that hard. Normally when I go shopping like that I buy stuff, [...]
I’ve suffered with anxiety for many years now, it’s been so bad in the past I literally couldn’t get out of my front door. Just opening the door to the hall would result in floods of tears, shaking, inability to breathe; a full blown panic attack. Fortunately after a course of CBT and lots of [...]
Yesterday we went for a walk, “the allotment walk” said my parents. I had visions of quaint allotments with shaded paths between them, maybe an orchard or two. Peace and calm and the beauty of nature, thought I, and I suppose if I didn’t have an anxiety disorder that’s what I would have got. But [...]
Brief background: we’re going to Spain for a 3 (nearly 4) month holiday very very soon. I have an anxiety disorder along with other bits and bobs. The fear is often worse than the reality, so they say at least, and so I hope because the fear of our trip to Spain is pretty epic [...]
Being in Paris has, once again, shown me that I am not normal. It’s not normal to be sat on the busy metro having to focus on your breathing just so you don’t have a panic attack, or to nearly faint in Galeries Lafayette because of the level of noise and amount of people. It’s [...]
Recently I’ve seen several status updates and blog posts about people wanting to come off their medication, lessen their medication or being generally fed up of their medication. People with mental illnesses who want to live a ‘normal’ life without being medicated and I couldn’t keep my gob shut any longer, so I’m blogging my [...]
Yesterday I had a French lesson. Or, more precisely, I was supposed to have a French lesson. That is until I found myself in floods of tears and unable to go, for the second time in three weeks. Let me take you back a little. Back several years in fact, to a time when I [...]
Hello all! I just wanted to do a little check in post after my nightmare of medication the other day! Things seem to have settled down, a lot! Thank the Goddess for that because it was all getting a bit much! Crying over French homework is not something I’d be happy with becoming a regular [...]
