Body Image: An Overview For Mental Health Awareness Week
Reading Time: 13 minutes In honour of mental health awareness week and its chosen subject, body image, this article will look at a selection of body image disorders
Welcome to the general category archive. Here you’ll find all the articles that have been indexed as general.
As the name suggests, this archive contains pretty much single article published. Here you’ll find everything from psychology, invisible disabilities, learning difficulties, health, and mental health.
Reading Time: 13 minutes In honour of mental health awareness week and its chosen subject, body image, this article will look at a selection of body image disorders
Reading Time: 4 minutes A personal account of group therapy and the difficulties that come with it, due to it feeling like I’m the practitioner or switching off
Reading Time: 5 minutes My first-hand account of trying to lose weight by dieting, but what I found was that I was dieting to misery. Is weight loss anyway worth it?
Reading Time: 6 minutes A personal view of one-to-one schema therapy and being abandoned when I needed the support most by my Mental Health Trust (NHS)
Reading Time: 5 minutes I discuss the complications of not opening your mail, using my experience to highlight how this behaviour can make your mental health worse
Reading Time: 8 minutes The second instalment of using my interactions with people on Twitter to generate another advice based article of real-world knowledge
Reading Time: 6 minutes This article discusses pill shaming and the impact it has, plus I reflect on my own experience with taking medication for my mental health
Reading Time: 9 minutes My anxiety disorders affect me in weird ways, from their triggers to their changing underlying fears and causing psychotic episodes
Reading Time: 8 minutes Antidepressants come with a lot of pros and cons, but one thing you’re not meant to do is go cold turkey, so how can you avoid it?
Reading Time: 10 minutes I discuss the background of my anxiety disorders and how drug use played their part in their development: drug-induced psychosis