Tag: Stigma
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Why it’s Important to Date Yourself
“If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell can you love somebody else?” – Ru Paul. Even in this day and age, I believe there is far too much stigma around spending time with yourself. Now, I don’t mean just being alone, I mean really taking the time to date yourself. What I mean…
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Navigating Anxiety and Body Image in Your 20s
Something that nobody tells you about hitting 20, is not only how much we change mentally, but also how many physical changes we go through. We constantly hear people preaching about how we will soon reach ‘Mental Maturity’, but what they neglect to mention, is the changes that come when we hit ‘Second Puberty’. Our…
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Finding Meaning in Grief: A Tribute to My Grandad
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes in waves, ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” – Vicki Harrison This blog is inspired by a recent one written by my brother, which I reposted not long ago, where he details the…
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Understanding When You Need Help with Mental Health
There comes a time with our mental health, where we sit ourselves down and finally realise that we’re really not okay – that we’re struggling, we can’t see a way out, or that it’s all just getting too much to handle alone. Let me tell you now – there is no shame in admitting we…
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How I Conquered Anxiety and Found Hope
This post is mainly just an update from my previous post: ‘How Anxiety Affected Me’. I recently came to realise that I ended the previous posts on my relationship with anxiety as rather negative. I was at a point where I was struggling to leave the house, find work, and I was beginning to implement…
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The Impact of Pressure on Young Adults
For the past 10 years, there has been an uprising in conversations about mental health. Radio shows, television programmes, books; they all discuss mental health in the modern world and it’s impact on society. However, even with this, there is still a lot of stigma surrounding this topic. I heard on the radio recently that…
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The Impact of Anxiety on My Life
Anxiety is different for everyone. For some, it’s daily panic attacks, for others, it might be feeling anxious before school. With this post, I’m going to share how anxiety affected me. Let’s start at the beginning… I can’t remember exactly when I started feeling anxious – it was more so a kind of feeling that…
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The Truth About Anxiety: Why It’s So Hard to Deal With
Anyone who has experienced anxiety can tell you that it is quite literally the worst. For everyone with this understanding, their reasonings may vary, but we all reach the same conclusion: Anxiety sucks. Why? Let me explain … 1. Every experience is unique: Because everyone experiences anxiety differently, it can feel as though nobody truly…
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