What is mindfulness? Take a moment to stop. Notice how you are sitting, your posture. Be aware of your breath. Can you feel your body? Can you feel any pain? Are you calm or is your mind racing? Are you feeling tense or are you comfortable? Too cold, hot or just right? Are you thirsty…
I honestly do not remember the last decent night’s sleep I had. That’s not saying I haven’t spent a lot of time in my bed, it’s just not spent sleeping. Since starting the antidepressants my sleep pattern has been rather erratic, to say the least. This is one of the side effects of the medication….
I get by day by day at the moment, each day different. Today started well, a reason to get up to take Frank to the groomers for his regular claw trim. It’s down to me to take him and it’s not his favourite outing. He goes early to avoid other dogs etc and to not…
At this moment in time, I honestly do not know where my head is, mental health has no defined criteria in who or when it hits. I don’t know if its the medication I taking for the depression, is it the depression itself, is it the mind and mindset. Recently I have just been existing…
The past five days or so have been a mix of highs and lows with my mental health, a combination of feeling great and curling up in a ball and hiding away from everything. I know we all have good and bad days that we all go through highs and lows in our everyday lives….
I always said that I would never take antidepressants, the last time I went to the doctors and was referred to primary care mental health team I declined the offer of medication, I saw a counsellor and talked with her, I knew all the answers to the questions, I was doing all the things they…
I find myself in a deep dark depressed hole, alone and scared, not knowing where to turn or what to do, I have done everything I possibly can and still I’m getting nowhere, the only time I don’t have these feelings and thoughts is when I am with Ffion. The Universal credits system is a…
There’s no structure to this I am just writing what is in my head, just putting down the words as they come out. Stuck in a dark place. I woke up around 7 I had no desire at all to get out of bed, I have no reason or purpose for getting up today, I…
Where to start, they always say to start at the beginning, but where or what was the beginning. All emotions are learned in the first 5 years of life, we are not born with fear, anger, hate, sadness, disgust, surprise, happiness. We learn them all as we grow, that’s why fears and phobias can be…
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