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Tag: help

This Time Last Year

This post is a thread of tweets I posted earlier today, hence the terse style (280 character limits!) This time … More

Broken Britain, doctors, government, health, help, mental health, mental health awareness, mental illness, NHS, one year, psychiatry, psychosis, shambles, support, writing

Dear Reader, How Are You?

Hello You. Yes, You, reading this now. How are you? Are you safe and well? Are your loved ones safe … More

advice, check in, coping, corona, corona virus, covid, covid19, emotions, feelings, help, humanity, lockdown, love, mental health, quarantine, society, support, wellbeing

The F Word

“What are you afraid of?” she asks, pen poised over the page of her notebook that is otherwise blank apart … More

conversation, dialogue, fear, freedom, Freud, help, Hijacked Amygdala, language, life, mental illness, prose, psychoanalysis, suicide, therapy, writing

A Song For World Mental Health Day

A Song To Say Goodbye by Placebo (2006) This song (a track on ‘Meds’ which is one of my all-time … More

addiction, awareness, depression, family, help, love, lyrics, mental health, mental illness, music, suicide, video, WMHD, world mental health day, worldmentalhealthday

August Meditations

I met a woman in trouble on the streets of Camden, helped her to get away from her abusive boyfriend … More

abuse, anxiety, BPD, change, chronic illness, depression, diary, help, life, mental illness, mood, notebook, sadness, stress, writing

Literally

Dear Sir/Madam, It would appear that I have identified a problem with your mood tracking app. As you know (or … More

apps, depression, help, language, letter, life, mental health, mental illness, mood, self help, suicide prevention, technology, words

020610

I wrote this in 2010. I can tell from the handwriting and absence of apostrophes that I was suffering from … More

death, diary, friendship, help, life, love, mental health, mental illness, notebook, psychosis, relationships, suicide, survival, writing

101118

Behold! A manic epiphany after going on a disgusting drink and drugs bender, not taking my anti-psychs and staying awake … More

borderline, BPD, depression, diary, eupd, fuck up, help, manic, mental health, mental illness, notebook, personality disorder, psychosis, writing

231018 (+270918)

I’ve been bad lately. Really bad. Physically wrecked, mentally destroyed. Making poor choices, doing stupid things. Two weeks of classic, … More

BPD, depression, diary, emotions, fibromyalgia, help, journal, love, mental health, notebook, pain, photo, suicide, writing

Good Chat

Act 4 Scene II [Small windowless room in an NHS psychiatric ward in north London. Man with lots of letters … More

books, dark, depression, dialogue, help, hospital, life, NHS, psychiatry, scene, screenplay, script, self help, writing

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