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 …

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 …