Blogs about mental health

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Mental health blogs and personal stories

Performing arts, puppetry and mental health

Submitted by Joni on Wed, 20/02/2013 - 10:31am

Shaddow puppet show with "Anxiety" written in the background | Time to Change Sometimes life can be pretty paradoxical. I have anxiety, mild depression and I used to have panic attacks so bad that I was agoraphobic and could hardly leave my house. Despite this I have always had a desire to perform.

Anorexia: get well cards helped when in hospital

Submitted by Joely on Tue, 19/02/2013 - 6:30pm

Hope you're better soon and feeling really great I have a range of experiences of being unwell and have experienced a range of responses from others to that unwellness. When somebody contracts a short illness, is temporarily injured or has surgery, society has set ideas about how to respond – namely, send a ‘Get Well’ card.

Get well soon cards for mental illness

Submitted by Time to Change on Mon, 18/02/2013 - 7:53am

New research has shown that only one in four people who have experienced a mental health problem have received a get well card during their illness, even though 80% say that a card would be a good way for others to let them know they are thinking of them.

My friends and family supported me after a psychotic episode

Submitted by Jen_ on Fri, 15/02/2013 - 1:55pm

Jen blogs about an experience of psychosis Support from family and friends makes all the difference when you experience mental illness. For me, illness came quickly, seemingly out of the blue, when I was twenty-six.