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
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.
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
What Is The Mentality Behind Pill Shaming?
Reading Time: 6 minutesThis article discusses pill shaming and the impact it has, plus I reflect on my own experience with taking medication for my mental health
The Weird Behaviour Of My Anxiety Disorders
Reading Time: 9 minutesMy anxiety disorders affect me in weird ways, from their triggers to their changing underlying fears and causing psychotic episodes
Taking Antidepressants And Being Forced To Go Cold Turkey
Reading Time: 8 minutesAntidepressants 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?
The Unusual Link Between Drug-Induced Psychosis And My Anxieties
Reading Time: 10 minutesI discuss the background of my anxiety disorders and how drug use played their part in their development: drug-induced psychosis
My GP Surgery Test Results: Digestive Troubles And Bowel Cancer
Reading Time: 4 minutesI discuss the embarrassment of trying to get help with my digestive problems and my GPs talking about bowel cancer as a cause