For anyone who has anxiety doing something new can be so stressful. Many times the unknown will mean you won’t actually do it. So, from one anxiety ridden, unconfident person to another here is is my ‘How to sign up to Pure Gym and use a treadmill’ guide. My guide for the anxious does what […]
Introduction This week’s Guest Blog spot has kindly been written by an old friend of mine, Barry. This covers the subjects of his anxiety, depression and Asperger’s syndrome diagnosis as a child and the fact he only came to terms with the acknowledgement and acceptance of these diagnosis as an adult. Barry has poured his […]
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 […]
I’ve already been quite vocal about how crap last week was, my anxiety was high and depression heavy. I thought I’d go in to full detail as to what I felt. To create awareness for how anxiety can manifest itself and how those of us who suffer with it try to get passed it. Anxiety […]
The internet exploded the past couple of weeks with images of the body transformation of actor Ethan Suplee. Why this suddenly went viral I don’t know. It is obviously something he has been working on for some time, but it seems to have just broken the internet. Having only binged watched all of My Name […]
Post-Christmas depression, Winter blues or the world’s longest month. Whatever you want to call it, it can be very hard to get through and beat the January blues. It seems like it was at least 4 years since you were last paid. The fridge is beginning to think you’re only ever putting leftovers in it […]
I’ve had an unexpected emotional week in the lead up to Christmas, and it consisted of dealing with the return of my anxiety and learning about an old school friend’s suicide. All of which, occurred on Wednesday 18th December. I was increasingly anxious about this day as I was going to be extremely out of […]
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 […]