Beating mental illness, suicide awareness, and being the best that you can be.
I got bullied a lot when I was at primary school and when I started secondary school I felt like I had a point to prove. I started trying to be a hard man. I would pick fights with people for no reason. The way that this usually ended up was by someone's older brother …
I am doing fairly well in life at the minute but things have not always been this way. Through my stupidity, I have become rich in the wisdom of hard lessons and I would like to start giving back what so many have previously given to me. I am starting a mental health blog because …
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I never knew what caused anxiety. I had experienced discomfort many times, yet I was unconscious of the effects. In my life, I had never wanted anything desperately enough to trigger the sort of reaction that I had seen in others and not understood. What you would probably describe as a mental breakdown. It was …
If you are having suicidal thoughts, please know that you are not your thoughts. Someone once told me this metaphor and it really helped me. Think of yourself as water. Water is pure like you. The negative thoughts that you are having are dirt that has got into the water. Despite the water being dirty, …
A few years ago if someone had asked me what was most likely to kill me before the age of 45, I would never have guessed it would be myself. After losing a close friend to suicide, it plagued my mind that I didn’t know anything about the pain he must have been in. It …
Since doing work on various bad habits and one serious addiction I have come to realise that everyone is self-medicating in one way or another. Self-medication can be in the form of food, shopping, alcohol, illegal drugs, medical drugs or almost anything that you find comfort in. I realised that I have been self-medicating in …