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…

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

This is the talk I’m giving at…

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.

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…

I’m writing the book on depression that I always wanted

Why I don’t like calling it ‘My Depression’

When you’ve been depressed six times over ten years, there comes a point when you…

Notes from a bench — My depression recovery anniversary 2022

Same bench. A new year. I was nervous approaching this bench today. One year (I think it was 2020) it was totally grown over with thorny branches and I couldn’t sit on it. The little paddock I sit in, part of the way round my…