Graduating From Mental Illness

Well, the day I’ve been dreading arrived like hot damn freight train. I am no longer in the school system in any way, shape, or form.

I was molded in primary school into Classic Young Girl Child™.

Life is one big transition.

It’s been just over a year now since I made the move to Stirling. This time last year I was finding my way…

“The D Word.”

It always starts out so out of the blue, doesn’t it? It’s a range of unprecedented emotions all at once that gather into a cloud of constant worry and misery in our minds. Initially I always believed that it was just an aspect of my psychological development, it was something that would pass… Like the…

My relationship with anti-depressants

Disclaimer: This is just my experience with anti-depressants, I’m no expert, and everyone has a different experience with them.

Everything. And nothing.

There are two words that feel dangerous to me at all times. No points awarded to anyone who can guess what words they are because, come on, really?

Those words are “everything” and “nothing”. And it’s scary to me how often they can mean the same thing.

The Mantra

There’s a mantra going through my head right now; “get water, get tea, don’t get a knife.”

Choose Your Own Anxiety!

A weird part of anxiety is the inherent narcissism involved. But also that narcissism is mixed with feelings of…

Pokéball Cookies Recipe: Gotta eat ’em all

You might have seen that the relief café recently went gallivanting around Stirling on a mission to brighten people’s days, armed with free flowers & free cookies. We walked around with our Pokéstop sign held high, and cookies baked into little pokéballs…

Frustration

I spend most of my mental illness being so damn frustrated at myself. Everything I do seems so avoidable, but somehow also so unavoidable.

Pokémon Go: The self-help app you never expected

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of the new mobile app from developers Niantic—Pokémon Go. It’s brought our favourite world of Pokémon and thrown it right into our realities in a neatly packaged little AR app…