Personal blogs about living with dissociative disorders
The following blog posts are written by people with personal experience of dissociative disorders. By talking openly, our bloggers hope to increase understanding around mental health, break down stereotypes and take the taboo out of something that – like physical health – affects us all.
Find out more about dissociative disorders from Mind.
There are thousands of diseases known to man both physical and mental. People around the globe are faced with diabetes, cardiac problems, degenerative joint issues and mental illness.
At first I didn't know I had mental health problems. I knew I was stressed, very "stressed", but didn't understand why I was overreacting and so fearful of the future. I just could never rest, I kept feeling exhausted but unable to sleep or I'd sleep for 16 hours, day after day. My heart was racing.
A few weeks a go there was a social event that I wanted to attend but knew it would be a difficult situation, thankfully, my partner being aware of some of the problems made things much easier.