In the beginning I was constantly on auto pilot đŠââď¸Â it wasnât by choice, it was just how my brain was deciding to manage it all. When you have a loved one trying to escape from the house, run into the road & harm themselves at every opportunity, being on auto pilot is all you can … Continue reading What helps YOU get through a loved ones mental illness? Do you have guilt?
I never know what I will be faced with from one day to another. One day I could open the door to find a very anxious, frightened, shaky pale looking mum, the next I could find her attempting a genuine smile with lippy applied. One of the most difficult things about this illness is it … Continue reading What will mental illness look like today?
It is truly heartbreaking to see a loved one go through some kind of Mental Health illness. Heartbreaking doesnât even cut it actually. Itâs more like crushing, devastating & soul destroying. You see a person you know & love with all your heart, suddenly change. In many instances even become unrecognisable, behaving like you have … Continue reading The pain of Mental Health
Have you ever had the feeling like someone has scribbled all over your brain? If not, just imagine your brain ticking along nicely, with clear thoughts, good head space & great perceptive & then all of a sudden thousands of tiny little brain people come out from their crevices armed with marker pens & scribble … Continue reading Has your life driven you mad?
So you've been diagnosed, or a loved one has been diagnosed, or you have a loved one showing signs of a metal illness, what do you do next? who do you turn to? This was the dilemma I was faced with. After having spent two days in France trying to find my mum & eventually locating her in the … Continue reading Help? What help??
Fuck fuck fuck!!! fuck anxiety! FUCK IT!!! I never had anxiety before all this. I was pretty manic as that is my character but anxiety was something weak people had, not me. It was something I shamefully looked as an excuse or a cry for help but here I am sitting at my kitchen table … Continue reading Anxiety is for wimps
Ok, so we all know Mental Ilness is not contagious right? Well in a literal sense itâs not, but what about the affect it has on those around the person with the an illness? I can tell you that over the past 11 years I have experienced some horrific side effects of having a poorly … Continue reading How mental health catches
(See previous post first) Conversations on the phone & email messages got more & more bizarre. Mum had always been a little bit of a feisty one,had a strong opinion & had always analysed things a bit too much. But this was different, this was more intense, more kinda verging on the side of obsessive. … Continue reading The phone call to say mum had a poorly brain
(See previous post first) So, now that Iâve told you I hate those two words, I can tell you why. (Check out previous post if you have no idea what im talking about) 11 years ago my beautiful mum began to act odd. There is no other way to describe it but that. At the … Continue reading How it all started (poorly brain)
So, firstly letâs get something clear. If I have uttered the two words âmentalâ & âhealthâ once, Iâve muttered them a trillion times. I donât like those words, infact my distaste for them grows more intense daily. When I talk of this topic, unfortunately the only way to get to the point the fastest way … Continue reading I hate two words…
Mental health (poorly brain) 