Happy 4 year anniversary to Pokémon Go! Woo! You may remember from my Pokémon Go blog before that it has helped me massively with my mental health and socialising. At the end of the blog I mention it helped me connect with someone when I started a new job and soon became genuine friends, not […]
Sunday was international women’s day. I wanted to take this opportunity to celebrate 6 successful women who have suffered with various mental health issues. We can take hope and inspiration from all these women who have been the voice for many of us, when we have needed it and couldn’t find it ourselves. Ruby Wax […]
If you’re like me you find exercising and work outs in general pretty hateful and full of dread, and procrastination. BLEUGH! But, alas, hold up, woah there and worry thee not! I have found some ways to make them more interesting, bearable and dare I say it..fun?! These geeky exercise examples are ones I have […]
The very first convention I attended was back in 2003 at Collectormania. Matt and I went, he met Kristanna Loken and David Naughton and I met Corey Feldman. It was a tiny little convention then, and held at the shopping centre, not in the football ground. Fast forward 10 years, we had been to a […]
After last week’s quite intense and serious post on my week of anxiety, I wanted to make this week’s post a bit more positive. This is a being published day later than usual because it wasn’t until gone 7pm yesterday when I had the realisation what I wanted to write about; Things I like about […]
Rise from your grave.. When things are getting a bit much in my head, my mind wanders and is bubbling away ready to boil over, I have a number of things to do to try to calm down. One of which, is listening to The Last Podcast on the Left. For the unitiated The Last […]
When I installed Pokemon Go on 14th July 2016 it would be the first Pokemon game I had ever played. I’d never seen any of the series or films and barely knew any the Gen 1 names. I downloaded it because my buddy, Kayne, did and I thought I’d see what it was like. Little […]
Who am I? I’m Rachael, 34, I’m a geek with mental health issues. I’ve suffered with social anxiety and depression for the best part of 6 years. I’ve gone though anxiety attacks, days when I couldn’t leave my bed and been scared to read the phone notifications. There have been times when I’ve been socially […]