Life With My Hair Destroying Behaviours
Reading Time: 6 minutesAs a follow on to the article, Traction Alopecia: The Hair Pulling Question, I discuss my life with my hair destroying behaviours
General
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.
Traction Alopecia: The Hair Pulling Question
Reading Time: 16 minutesThis article discusses my hair pulling and hair destroying behaviours that lead to me developing permanent traction alopecia to identify which disorder best accounts for those behaviours
Having A Freedom Pass When You Have An Invisible Disability
Reading Time: 5 minutesMy disability freedom pass was meant to help set me free, but I soon found out it caused me additional anxiety: Invisible disabilities
Mental Health: Painting A Picture Of The Issues With Statistics
Reading Time: 16 minutesA collection of mental health conditions accompanied by some of their facts and figures for Mental Health Awareness Week 2019
Body Image: An Overview For Mental Health Awareness Week
Reading Time: 13 minutesIn honour of mental health awareness week and its chosen subject, body image, this article will look at a selection of body image disorders
My Experience Of Being In Group Therapy: Part 1
Reading Time: 4 minutesA personal account of group therapy and the difficulties that come with it, due to it feeling like I’m the practitioner or switching off
Dieting To Misery: Being Overweight
Reading Time: 5 minutesMy 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?
My Experience Of Being In One-To-One Schema Therapy
Reading Time: 6 minutesA personal view of one-to-one schema therapy and being abandoned when I needed the support most by my Mental Health Trust (NHS)
Unopened Mail: The Surprising Impact Of Trivial Fears
Reading Time: 5 minutesI discuss the complications of not opening your mail, using my experience to highlight how this behaviour can make your mental health worse
Twitter’s Advice For Supporting Someone With Mental Health Problems
Reading Time: 8 minutesThe second instalment of using my interactions with people on Twitter to generate another advice based article of real-world knowledge