2023-01-16 14:30
When we talk about self-care, we think about it as this luxury piece of time that we have to carve out every single day.
It’s drummed into us that we should be taking long soaks in… Read More
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A candid mental health blog about living with a mental illness and overcoming social anxiety
2023-01-03 22:58
Walking slowly towards the supermarket in a fatigued state with a blank expression on my face, I couldn’t help feeling as if I’d completely lost myself.
I had gone past the po… Read More
2021-06-22 23:44
They told me to keep quiet, to keep the peace, to make him comfortable. So the trauma danced around in my head, migrating into my chest and hardening my limbs. I carried the weight of it on… Read More
2021-05-15 17:42
Are you constantly being pestered by MLM consultants? Do you have friends that keep asking you to join their “team”? This is how to say NO to Multi-Level Marketing, whether you&r&hell…Read More
2021-04-28 04:24
.Losing friends because of a chronic illness is nothing new to me, it happened with my social anxiety disorder and depression and now it’s happening again with my physical chronic cond… Read More
2021-01-15 08:00
Want to learn how to start your own mental health blog?
Since starting this mental health blog in 2014, my mental health has drastically improved for a few reasons:
I felt that if I was goin… Read More
2020-11-13 04:24
When the news broke out that we had to keep indoors, I think a lot of us with social anxiety sighed with a bit of relief rather than total anguish.
We have always secretly felt calmer ha… Read More
2020-10-21 22:50
Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) is a talking therapy that can help you manage your problems by changing the way you think and behave. It’s most commonly used to trea… Read More
2020-03-09 17:21
Senior living facilities can help improve mental health for seniors by enhancing their social interaction and keeping them active. These healthy communities can help keep seniors independent… Read More
2020-01-22 14:44
Do you want a motivating list of goals, that consists of things you know you can actually achieve in the near future? Well, in this post I’ve rounded up 100 life goals which are a litt… Read More
2020-01-04 15:00
If you’re like me and struggle with insomnia, it can be super frustrating trying to think of things to do when bored at night. No one wants to be lying in bed doing nothing for hours… Read More
2019-12-20 19:14
Managing mental health at Christmas can be tough.
It’s such a busy time of year. There’s LOTS of socialising, drinking, eating and pressure to spend money.
While it is a ma… Read More
2019-11-10 17:26
I spent years lying because of social anxiety. Not in a malicious way or in a way to hurt and deceive people but because of the way that social anxiety had deceived me.
The truth is, soci… Read More
2019-11-08 19:03
Not all self harm alternatives are made equally.
Often when you search for self harm alternatives or you’re given advice to try something different from self harm, you are told to… Read More
2019-10-13 14:20
Looking for an anxiety challenge list for your exposure therapy and to manage your social anxiety?
Earlier this year, I posted some social anxiety challenges to kickstart 2019 because I a… Read More
2019-10-12 18:02
This social anxiety blog will be 6 years old soon.
Back when I started my blog, I had no idea what I was doing in terms of getting my posts in front of an audience or how to properly wri… Read More
2019-10-11 14:10
I started posting these social anxiety quotes on Instagram over a year ago because I wanted to a) know that I wasn’t the only one experiencing these things and b) laugh through the pai… Read More
2019-10-10 13:45
This week (Monday 7th October 2019) I was included in a very special short film as part of the Every Mind Matters Campaign for Public Health England and NHS that aired on ITV, Channel 4, Cha… Read More
2019-09-28 10:40
Your tough love doesn’t work on my mental illness. Your dismissive and sometimes gaslighting attitude towards me does not work on my mental illness.
I hear the words “you need… Read More
2019-09-26 17:18
What are social anxiety safety behaviours and how do they impact our progress?
The years that I spent in therapy, I learnt a hell of a lot. A lot about myself, about social anxiety and me… Read More
2019-09-07 18:24
My mental health has been up and down for over two decades.
I know what it’s like to have a severe social anxiety disorder and depression, I also know what it’s like to overc… Read More
2019-08-21 17:03
I have been deceived by social anxiety countless times. It always makes me automatically jump to the worst conclusion.
From making me panic that my friends are only putting up with me… Read More
2019-06-08 18:19
I’m a big fan of using mental health printables and therapy worksheets for my anxiety. Writing down my thoughts before going into social events, then analysing them afterwards, has hel… Read More
2019-05-09 18:43
I haven’t been actively suicidal in 7 years but that doesn’t mean I don’t always still think about suicide.
Passive suicidal thoughts weave in and out of my brain o… Read More
2019-05-06 15:52
Long gone are the days that I would keep my mental illness a dirty little secret or pretend that I was physically sick to mask my mental health symptoms.
I no longer care if my menta… Read More
2019-05-04 19:20
How often do you hear people say “Why didn’t they just reach out?” when a person dies by suicide.
I mean, I get it, I do. I’m a huge advocate of talking about you… Read More
2019-05-02 19:45
I know first hand how difficult it is to maintain friendships with anxiety, not just as the person with anxiety but as a friend to other people that have it.
It’s tricky to navigate… Read More
2019-04-27 13:57
About 7 years ago, I found myself having a mental breakdown. I couldn’t function in my day-to-day life, I could hardly get out of bed, I couldn’t face the outside world without f… Read More
2019-04-06 11:23
Before I started writing a mental health blog, I had realised that my anxiety was getting slightly bad again after I had mostly overcome social anxiety.
It may have been a change of circ… Read More
2019-04-03 14:04
This post is mainly focusing on UK mental health treatments and support but depending on which country you are in, there should be similar treatments available.
The first hurdle when you… Read More
2019-03-13 16:34
Overcoming social anxiety has been no easy task.
It took me years to unlearn the bad habits that my life long social anxiety disorder caused me to have.
During that time, I learnt a p… Read More
2019-03-12 10:01
There are several mental health hashtags you can and can’t use on Instagram.
Are you a mental health blogger? Do you work in the mental health industry? Or do you use your Instagram… Read More
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