Tag: living with mental health
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Learn to help someone in a positive constructive way, whilst empowering them.
This week I thought I would write about one of the lessons I have learnt over the years supporting people with their own mental health challenges and it is a bit of a cautionary tail. That ultimately warns against the risk of taking too much on for someone and in the process deskilling them. I…
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A fight worth winning.
Don’t give up the fight for happiness. You are so worth it. Don’t accept the hard times. Fight for better days.
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Why I started my blog – Mental Health is not an excuse.
I have been reflecting a lot over the last few weeks on why I started my blogging about mental health. Absolutely one of the triggers for me was my experience last year, following the diagnosis of PTSD and the response I had from people when I “came out” about my illness. But let’s face it…
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Living with someone struggling with Mental Health.
This is a tricky one to write as it is a time of my life I don’t like spending time reflecting on too much. However my wonderful husband has asked me to write it as he feels it is an important angle to Mental Health. As you will come to learn I have had many…