Life With My Hair Destroying Behaviours
Reading Time: 5 minutes As a follow on to my post “Traction Alopecia: The Hair Pulling Question”, I’ll be talking about my life with my hair destroying behaviours.
Mental Health (Personal)
<p>This archive Mental Health (Personal) will house every blog post about my mental health problems. For the purpose of spreading knowledge about mental health</p>
Traction Alopecia: The Hair Pulling Question
Reading Time: 16 minutes I discuss the behaviours that lead to me developing permanent traction alopecia and look at which disorder(s) best accounts for those behaviours
My Experience With Group Therapy: Part 1
Reading Time: 3 minutes My experience with group therapy and the difficulties I have with it, due to it either feeling like I’m the practitioner or I’ve switched off
Being Overweight: Dieting To Misery
Reading Time: 4 minutes I tried to lose weight by dieting, but what I found was that I was dieting to misery. Is weight loss worth it if it makes you so miserable?
My Experience With One-To-One Therapy
Reading Time: 5 minutes My experience with one-to-one therapy and being abandoned when I needed the support most by my Mental Health Trust, as my personal situation fell apart
Opening The Mail
Reading Time: 3 minutes I discuss my experience with dealing with my mail, and how not opening my mail made my mental health worse as I kicked the can down the road
The Weirdness Of My Anxiety Disorders
Reading Time: 9 minutes I discuss how my anxiety disorders affect me, their triggers, and how the main fear that my anxiety disorders are based on has changed over the years
Anti-Depressants And Me
Reading Time: 6 minutes My experience with having to go cold turkey from my medications due to my Mental Health Trust. Something that goes against the NICE guidelines
Drug-Induced Psychosis And My Anxiety Disorders
Reading Time: 10 minutes I discuss the background of my anxiety disorders and how substance use played their part in their development: drug-induced psychosis
My GP Surgery Test Results
Reading Time: 4 minutes I discuss the embarrassment of trying to get help with my digestive problems from my GP, and hope it’s not all linked to my anxiety disorders