Why am I obsessed with mental health?

I used to wonder if people think I’m obsessed with mental health.

It stands to reason; I myself have wondered, at times, why I can’t stop thinking about it, reading about it, writing about it, talking about it. I’ve even started signing…

How to: help someone with depression

When I first came across this quote, written in ‘Furiously Happy’ by Jenny Lawson, I felt…

How to: help someone with depression — part 2

Anger. Helplessness. Confusion. Sadness. Self-hate. Defeat.

Live through this, and you won’t look back

Notes on feeling suicidal — and refusing to move on

Notes on feeling suicidal — and looking back

My Mental Health Story for OVO Energy’s Mental Health Awareness Week

This is the talk I’m giving at…

When you’re depressed, nothing is normal.

A trip to M&S, a trip to the supermarket, a visit from a relative and Google.

A trip to M&S

Mental Health Maths for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

You could add this to your list of slightly doom and gloom posts for Mental Health Awareness week this year. Then, however, maybe you can take it off again.

The gift of mental health confidence.

Mental health challenges rob anyone who has been through them of so very many things: friends, jobs, romantic relationships and so much more. Underpinning it all, however, I believe, is the confidence that it steals from us.

Learning not to fear the year

Depression rightly brings up fear in many — after almost yearly…

The depression “freak out”

This is something I haven’t spoken much about in the past — I certainly have never written about it. However, I decided now was the time (given I went through my first “freak out” since I last recovered from depression, so perhaps my first in eighteen months or so)— as a piece of…