In the beginning I was constantly on auto pilot 👩✈️ it wasn’t 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?
Ok, so we all know Mental Ilness is not contagious right? Well in a literal sense it’s 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 I’ve 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 let’s get something clear. If I have uttered the two words ‘mental’ & ‘health’ once, I’ve muttered them a trillion times. I don’t 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) 