Last week I could sense things were going wrong, well, wrong-er. I couldn’t breathe, my hands were vibrating with shakes, I had a twitch in my neck that was shaking my head back and forth, back and forth and everything, everything was scaring the absolute arse off me. Making a sandwich was terrifying. Forming a [...]

The last week has totally evaporated into thin air but somehow it’s also dragged to the point of utterly excruciating. I’m not sure whether I’m fully capable of actually writing about ya k’now, that stuff in all its ugly glory but I’m gonna try in manageable bullet points, it’s less scary that way, innit?Massive apologies [...]

It packed it’s bags and waved goodbye, and I had all this stuff in my head that I knew was there, but couldn’t get out and couldn’t understand how to say it or where to say it. I thought things and felt things, and desperately missed the ability to share them with anyone, to be [...]

We seek comfort in the places that give it. For me, Depression took me to Reality TV… and that’s not an entirely bad thing. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Tales From the Motherland

As promised Kerry Connelly is guest posting today! Hopefully, as people read her story there will be new discussions about what it is like for people who suffer in silence and solitude out of fear of judgement. Many people would rather seal themselves off from the world than tell someone that they need help. If [...]

Hey everyone as you know by now with reading my blog I like to write poems and crochet, and recently started to do draw some art, as you can see I don’t really have a genre in art some are nice, some are not so nice a bit like my poems. It is also like [...]

I am not very confident. People are often surprised to hear me say that, as I apparently come across as pretty confident, or maybe just loud, but much of that is bluster. And of course when I am writing right here on my blog I am hiding behind my computer. So while I have been [...]

The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking.– Albert Camus 6 Lies Your Depression Wants You to Believe & How to Not Fall Into the Trap) By Kavetha Sundaramoorthy Appeared on The Change Blog! Like this?Read more… Recommended by Being Positive with a Depressive [...]

Since I am a day behind due to another crisis in my home, I am combining my posts to make it easier on me and to catch up. One must be truly understanding of mental illness and how it affects everyone, to be able to deal with 2 people, 2 suicide attempts, in one month.  [...]

Last year was an horrendous year for my family and I was fairly open in my description of what happened. Every depressing and scary detail got posted on. It helped me to get it all out and now that I’m feeling a lot happier in myself and social services have been out of our lives for over [...]

It’s Depression Awareness Week, although with the state of the economy and the weather, it wouldn’t surprise me if most of the country was painfully aware of feeling a bit in the dumps. Ah, see what I did there? Of course, there’s a difference to being a bit blue and being clinically depressed, and for [...]

The last week has totally evaporated into thin air but somehow it’s also dragged to the point of utterly excruciating. I’m not sure whether I’m fully capable of actually writing about ya k’now, that stuff in all its ugly glory but I’m gonna try in manageable bullet points, it’s less scary that way, innit?Massive apologies if this is a complete [...]

Today I had my debut as a contributor on Parents Space; an online meeting place for parents to share information and experiences. It took me a while to finish the article – even though I have written dozens before – because the subject was a little close to home: depression. I don’t hide the fact [...]

Cocoa is nine years old. He is our second beagle. He was actually bought because my husband thought our first beagle Sheba needed a pet. Cocoa enjoyed seven years with Sheba, who at first was not too pleased he was there. Like this?Read more… Recommended by AlwaysARedhead

BPD is all about high levels of emotional sensitivity. “…Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it … and my heart is going to cave in.” Like this?Read more… Recommended by Expatlog

It’s human nature to do it, yet comparing yourself to others, something we learn to do from a young age, is a destructive habit. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Stay At Home Mum Toolkit

My mum was everything to me, as a little girl I adored her, I am now a mum myself and I still adore her. I am now able to understand why postnatal depression and suicide are topics that need to be talked about. Like this?Read more… Recommended by Stay At Home Mum Toolkit

Something happened that I will never forget. Something happened that I don’t talk about much with anyone other than Hubby but actually it had a massive impact on our life. Something happened that I can’t share many details of because of a legal agreement, but that I need to talk about. Something happened that I [...]

It doesn’t matter how many times BPD engulfs my mind, I can never recognize it for what it is at the outset. There’s something so cruel about being the last to know your sense of perspective’s gone AWOL. You wish someone had pulled you aside sooner and told you – but I probably would’ve been [...]

One thing you don’t count on when you begin taking anti-depressants, or even begin an increased dosage of those little white pills is that you’ll end up with more problems than you had when you started taking them. Like this?Read more… Recommended by I’m Counting UFOs