Living with depression, I have found, has opened my eyes to dealing with the unpredictable. Or at the very least, made me afraid of it. The pure inconsistency of life can be exhausting, when every day can feel like waking up as a different person to the day before. The good days are rarely when… Continue reading Depression: Battling for Power
So today is #TimetoTalk day, a day for open and honest conversations about mental health. Now, I talk and write a lot about fighting the stigma towards mental illness and about my own story, but if you haven’t ever spoken about mental health before, actually speaking up for the first time can be really scary… Continue reading Fighting Stigma: How to Talk?
So I wrote here about fighting the stigma that people with mental illness are violent and dangerous, but this time I wanted to talk about another stigma we are faced with on a daily basis when it comes to speaking up about our struggles. This is the idea that people use mental health issues to… Continue reading Fighting Stigma: “Attention Seeking”
Eliza Blooms 