Today, February 5th, is #TimeToTalk Day. Time to #Take5 to talk about mental illness, to take that step to help end the stigma and taboo. Regular blog readers will know that I have suffered from mental health issues myself so talking about it and raising awareness is something I am very passionate about. I’m going to share my 5 sentence mental health story; you can do the same using the following format, either over on the Time to Change Facebook page or in the blog comment box: My name is Stacey and I have experienced depression, post natal depression, and anxiety. My …
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Breakdown
Yesterday I had another breakdown. I really didn’t see this one coming, it just came from nowhere. Hubby was at work, the boys were playing, and I was sat nearby. I had been feeling on edge all morning but that’s nothing unusual for nowadays so I didn’t think too much of it, really. Over the space of a few minutes I just completely lost it. I cried. Floods and floods of tears. Pacing up & down. Trying so hard to stop myself… I wanted to go back to this same place. I was scared. I couldn’t stop what was happening. But …
We’re going back to the start…
You may have seen last week that I had a huge breakdown and have fallen into the big black hole again. Where you just can’t see the future in front of you. Sometimes you don’t want to see the future in front of you. Sounds harsh, but sometimes it’s oh so true – that’s what it does to you. Anyway, I digress. After the breakdown, we saw it was a cry for help and I made a doctors appointment. I knew what I was going for, and that was anti-depressants. I was adamant that I wanted them, and when she asked …
Crash & burn
I was hoping, praying, that this wouldn’t happen again. That I wouldn’t suffer the same fate I did after J was born. I’ve been hiding, trying to fight it myself for weeks now. Nearing breaking point. Today I snapped. I reached it. I don’t know what triggered it, it just happened. From nowhere. I decided that life would be better off without me. My children, my husband, my family. Selfish. I know I’m selfish. But this illness, this horrible, debilitating, illness. Now that, that is even more selfish. It doesn’t care. It can control me. But I couldn’t control it. …
World Mental Health Day 2014 #TimeToTalk
Today, the 10th of October 2014, marks World Mental Health Day. Why is mental health still such a stigma? Chances are you know at least one person who has mental health issues, but you may not actually know because they are ashamed to talk about it. The recent death of the much loved Robin Williams caused everyone to start talking about it, but why should it take for somebody – anybody – to die, in order to start talking? The post I wrote last year I did so with ease; I wrote it because even though I wasn’t suffering at …