Tag: Mental Health
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Understanding the Five Stages of Grief
I’ve done a lot of research and reading up about grief since my Grandad passed, and I’ve learnt one thing: that your grief is uniquely yours. Even with shared experiences, and shared feelings of the person you’ve lost, nobody will ever really experience grief the same way you do. It affects everyone differently and at…
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Overcoming Anxiety: Defining Your Own Mind
It can be easy for those with anxiety to feel like they are confined, or owned by their anxiety – and I’m not surprised. Anxiety can make us feel shut-in, alone, and misunderstood. But the truth is, our anxiety doesn’t define us – we define it. Our anxieties most often reflect our own fears and…
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How Sleep Impacts Your Mental Health
We all know that our sleeping habits, much like our eating, can affect our physical health – but did you know it affects our mental health just the same? Sleep and mental health are probably closer interlinked than you might think; ill mental health can prevent us from getting restful sleep, whilst poor sleep can,…
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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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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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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…
My Mind, Mostly. 