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How I Journal to help with my Mental Health
Journalling can be very helpful if you have a mental illness, but I have found it can also be really unhelpful too. I know that might be opposite to what you have heard, in fact, everyone always mentions journalling as this activity that can only ever help you. Why can it be unhelpful? Well firstly,…
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Why I had to go no contact with my mother.
TW: Parental abuse, narcissism, alcoholism, ED etc. I find there’s a lot of hypocrisy aimed at abuse victims when the abusers are their parents, especially with mothers. If a partner had put me through what my mother put me through, and I then escaped and went no contact, everyone would be quite rightly proud of…
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Stigma Surrounding Parenting With Bipolar Disorder
It’s currently Mental Health Awareness Week and I asked myself what do I think would be important to talk about from my perspective as someone with Bipolar and other mental health issues. The first thing that came to mind was stigma, specifically the stigma I’ve experienced being a mother who has Bipolar Disorder. Mental health…
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Weekend Coffee Share and Cocaine Bear
Featured Image:- My favourite TeaPigs tea Welcome to my first weekend coffee share, I will hopefully be doing these every weekend to accompany my post in the week. I’m new here and thought it might be a great way to connect with others too. So, if we were having TeaPigs tea, my absolute favourite tea…
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My Top 6 Escapist Destinations
I absolutely love escapism, it has been my go-to coping mechanism for my mental health and physical issues which include being in recovery from anorexia, Bipolar disorder and other illnesses. Whilst escapism can cause problems if the escapism itself takes over your real life, for me, it has been a constant source of inspiration. It…
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Lesbian Visibility Week – My coming out as a Lesbian later in life.
I thought I’d share a little of my story for Lesbian visibility week. I am what the internet has called a “later-in-life lesbian” or “late bloomer”. I have only been publicly “out” for about a year and I am in my late 30’s. I always knew however that I absolutely did not want to be…
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The Rants and Realisations of a Default Sim
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