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Remission
Life. I haven’t written a post for a good few months, or more. First, I just want to say to everyone a Happy New Year. It’s been a weird few months but all in all, the positive has certainly outweighed the negative. Suffice to say, I have been off antidepressants for 5 months now – and it’s crazy to think that I never could imagine myself being off them. I never could imagine a life without taking these pills that are supposed to stabilise your mood. But it happened. Things can get better, not all the time – but most of the time. Since then I’ve been working on myself,…
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Love without conditions
I could talk about mental health from so many angles but one of the biggest things I get from people all the time, is the idea that someone facing mental illness is undeserving of love. Most people say things to me without realising their words are implying my anxiety and depression makes me unloveable. Daily I feel this constant pressure to fix myself, to cure my OCD, to wake up one day as this chilled carefree person and then maybe I’ll be good enough for a relationship. I am a pretty open book when it comes to my journey with anxiety and depression but even I feel like I will…
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Unrequited, pt.7
Hi Fam, just me again! Bringing to you the last post of the Unrequited series. I nearly started up a vlog back in 2015 but never ended up making anything of it. So I took this little snippet of a song that I wrote when I was feeling at my lowest. I thought I would share it with you all. Singing, writing, kind words, coffees + adventures with friends are my saving grace. Think about what your saving grace is? What can brighten up your day when you’re feeling down? Enjoy xx Lyrics. Even though the pastel colours / situate before my eyes / My thoughts are solely grayscale /…
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Be still, anxious heart
It feels like forever ago that I wrote something for The Heart Chain, and it’s probably because it was. I wrote about my lived experiences; anxiety, depression, failed relationships and all of the in-between. So here I am, winging a what could have been beautiful poetic number, but instead an impromptu piece straight from my somewhat aberrant thoughts to paper (or in this case, desktop or mobile device). Disclaimer: See here, I still didn’t know what I was going to be writing about. Trying to describe anxiety to someone who hasn’t a clue what it feels like is often a tricky thing to articulate. So let me try and attempt an already…
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Unrequited, pt.6
This was going to be my final post for the Unrequited series but my favourite number is 7 so I feel as though I need to finish on that note haha. I just want to use this piece of writing as a sum up of what I’ve written previously, specifically relating to relationships and communication. As you’ve seen in the previous instalments, I have basically word vomited my life story, from when I got diagnosed with anxiety and depression, till now. But I haven’t actually mentioned where I’m at with my mental health currently. I feel as though I wouldn’t have been able to start up this creative platform and…
