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…
Category: Depression and Anxiety
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Depression and Anxiety
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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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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…
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Nutritional Supplements
Skimlinks Test Whilst on my quest for better mental health and well-being, I’ve spent much time over the past 15 years looking at what I could put into my body that would help to bring some relief from my mental…
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My Journey Diary – #1
I thought it might be nice to touch base on a regular basis to let you all know how I’m progressing and what’s happening in my life and with my health. Work on the blog has really taken over everything…
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What is depression? – A creative narrative
It is a hole. An abyss. A place where all feeling leaves you. Apart from the deepest of sadness. And fear. Its fear like you have never known. A fear of never feeling whole again. All that once ignited your…
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TECHNIQUES // Thought Stopping for OCD.
When my obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and other anxiety was at its worst, the invasive thoughts were never ending. I would be attacked, all day every day, by a barrage of intrusive and sometimes scary thoughts.There seemed no single way…