11 Women’s Top Tips for coping with Mental Health
Eleven wonderful women below share their personal mental health stories and their top practices and tips for coping with a bad da
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Mental Health
If you broke your leg you’d talk about it right? See a doctor, get some rest, take it easy. Well mental health is the same. Talking about it has always made it less overwhelming and isolating for me. Take comfort in we’re all imperfect and just doing our best. Be kind.
You will struggle with bad days even when you’re better
Once a mental illness comes into your life, it becomes a lifelong companion. Some days are better than others, most days are better than the darkest ones, but there’s still light and shade.
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Being an extrovert with depression
Despite the catchy title, I’ll say now that I’m more of an introverted extrovert, but it probably isn’t surprising that when I had depression I didn’t know what it was and didn’t understand it until several years later.
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Anxiety and the anxious mind
Anxiety is useful in small doses and it’s essential for survival, but anxious thoughts lead to an anxious mindset which can be incredibly debilitating.
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It’s not you: removing blame from mental illness
Mental illness is hard enough to process without the shame, guilt and blame that comes along with the stigmatisation and overwhelming feelings for the individual suffering with the illness.
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How to embrace an unexpected event
As you can tell from the name of this blog, I’m very aware that life is full of one unexpected event after another, taking you to new places. Most of these unexpected twists and turns are unwelcome and present issues, as well, you didn’t see them coming. Some unexpected events, of course are good, wonderful […]
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The truth? My depression is back
Life is really shit sometimes. We all get that. Right now, I’m deciding whether I go for pancakes by myself (table for one!) before I go back to an evening at a house I’m in by myself with little motivation to bother to get up tomorrow. Life has thrown things at me once again and […]
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I’m so glad it’s the weekend
So this isn’t my usual Friday feeling, but I’m so glad it’s the weekend. I feel as though I could sleep for 12 hours right about now. I’m exhausted from my new job, new commute and meeting a whole bunch of new lovely people. It’s been great, but new things are tiring, as are earlier […]
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Dear Mind
Trigger Publishing asked if I wanted to get involved with their Dear Mind campaign for Mental Health Awareness week. Dear Mind, You are my worst critic. You are my meanest friend. Why do you become clouded so often? Why do you trick me into believing that I am alone? Fat? Worthless? Stupid? I try to […]
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