With all this good advice and all the techniques and medications out there to help you feel good, how come we still have bad days? The truth is everyone has bad days. Some worse than others. Some have bad weeks,…
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Students – Mental health illness
Dealing with mental health problems is a living nightmare. Period. Dealing with mental health problems whilst going through your adolescence and late teens is basically horrendous. You may have read in my first piece ‘Where have I gone?’ that I…
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Fibro/M.E./C.F.S – Finding Relief
Living with constant pain and fatigue is literally exhausting. There is little or no let up. I have learnt over time that my stamina is almost zero if I am pushed to a full day of activity. My ability to…
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Techniques- Let’s pretend
Let’s play let’s pretend. Do you remember that as a child. Pretending to be someone else, usually a grown up or a doctor or teacher. It was a game that offered hours of fun pretending to be someone else. Playing…
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Techniques – Worry Time
What is worry? It’s a pain in the butt is what it is! It has your head spinning, you go back and forth with the same thoughts or a million of them. You feel out of sorts, you can’t…
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Make-up for Kiki – Base Edit
I often get asked what Make-up I’m using. I like to think that it’s years of practice and an eye for detail that make the difference. Or that it is maybe the care I take of my skin. Or it’s…
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Depression – Gauge symptoms
This may seem an unusual one. But, during my darkest days my mum encouraged me to gauge each day and sometimes each moment on a scale of 1-10. I can assure you that at first I was a 10!…
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Depression/Anxiety -Time Travel
If you are depressed it is likely you are living in the past. If you are anxious, it is likely you are living too much in the future. Try to live in the present. In real terms, all we…
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Depression/Anxiety – You are still you!
You have not disappeared. You are still you. Whoever you were before this nightmare began. Deep inside, behind the fear, anguish and despair, the REAL you still exists. You have not gone anywhere. Do not be afraid that you…