Mental Health Awareness Month – My battle with mental health/illness

I was planning on posting this at the end of Mental Health Awareness week, but hey ho, never did. Trigger warnings: Anxiety, Depression, mention of OCD, self-harm, suicidal thoughts This is going to be a hard post to write for many reasons. I've been somewhat open (I think?) about my struggles with mental health and illness …

Mental Health Awareness Month: Non-Fiction Mental Health books

For my last mental health awareness month post, I done some fiction recommendations. I don't have enough non-fiction books on mental health that I've read to do a complete post full of recommendations of books I've read so I thought I would combine the very few I've read with some books I want to get to. There …

Mental Health Awareness Month: Fiction recommendations

Since it's mental health awareness month, I really wanted to do some posts themed around mental health and so today I bring you some more recommendations. I do these recommendations a lot so there are some that might have been on previous lists, and some which will be new, hence the reason I am doing …

MIAW 2017: Book featuring mental illness recommendations

MIAW stands for Mental Illness awareness week and takes place in the first week of October. Last year I was trying to do a whole weeks worth of Mental health/illness related posts but unfortunately had to stop due to mental illness itself. For this post I wanted to recommend some books that deal with mental …

It’s Christmas, time to be happy?

So, it's Christmas Eve as I write this. Tomorrow is therefore Christmas Day. People are going to be happy and excited and all those positive feelings. But for those with a mental health issue, just because it's Christmas doesn't mean the struggles are going to go away. Sometimes, Christmas can be hard if you suffer …

Recovery Playlist

This is probably my most listened to playlist at the moment and it can really help me get through hard times, but sometimes, it's just a playlist I like to listen to. Some songs I feel relate to the process of recover, others a reminder that bad days are going to happen in recovery and …

MIAW: Mental Illness related books

I am a big lover of literature, though recently, ironically because of my mental health, I haven't read as much. But I do want to share some of my favourite books featuring mental illnesses. 1. It's Kind of a Funny Story - Ned Vizzini This has probably got to be one of my all time …

MIAW: The truths about Mental Illnesses

There's a lot of misconceptions of mental illnesses and maybe from the outside, these are hard to see, but I don't know. These days, mental illnesses are very much romanticised and made to be a positive thing. Often this is portrayed in medias such as TV shows. First off, depression is not always caused by …

MIAW: My battle with mental illnesses

It's the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week and I feel the best way I can start some blog posts related to this week is to talk about my own experiences. I've battled with a low mood since I was in year 8, so I was about 13. I can't remember much from these years …

Back to school haul!

I'm going in to sixth form this year and am I pretty terrified. To get myself more excited and motivated, I thought I would treat myself to some new stationary supplies. I've always loved stationary and I don't think there will be a day where I won't! I wasn't planning on buying this much at …