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Anxiety and Isolation: Finding Your Support Network
I know all too well, the familiar feeling of feeling forever alone with this disorder. It feels as though nobody truly understands, and as though it’s a battle that only I face – even when we know there are so many others out there who face the same battle. Unfortunately, because everybody experiences anxiety differently,…
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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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Life, Loss and Something About Fatherhood
I very recently lost my grandad, and it has been a heavy loss wherein I have found myself unsure of what to do about it. My brain had decided upon … Life, Loss and Something About Fatherhood A little something about loss. Written by my brother.
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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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How to Build a Mental Health Toolkit
Mental Health Toolkits are things that we can put in place to alleviate our symptoms when our anxiety rises. These toolkits are easy to put together, and easy to share with friends and family as a backup for when things get too much. These toolkits come in many forms, such as: These toolkits are great…