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
Me
Welcome to the category archive that’s all about me. Here you’ll find all the articles that have been indexed as containing a sizable amount of personal information and my experiences.
If you want to learn more about the person behind the Unwanted Life blog, then this is the archive for you.
Here you’ll find articles whereby I talk about my mental health and my invisible disability issues. You’ll also find some other interesting insights into who I am as a person.
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
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
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?