“At the age of 17 I was registered blind due to a degenerative genetic disorder. Though this made life a little more difficult I completed my A-levels and went on to university. However age 20 I withdrew from my course due to ill health. Following this I was diagnosed with emotionally unstable personality disorder and […]
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Cotswold Lavender is a family-run farm growing and distilling the finest lavender essential oils. The crops thrive in the free-draining soils on the hill overlooking Broadway and the Vale of Evesham. Oils are gently extracted using rainwater by steam distillation, a process originally invented by the ancient Egyptians. The lavender oils within the plant that
I started sneaking alcohol from my parent’s liquor cabinet when I was 14 years old. I did it out of plain curiosity the first time. I have a sister who is 10 years older than me and she always looked like she was having so much fun when she was drinking with her friends. I
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Today’s blog post is a beautiful song which has been submitted by Phil Muriel. “Dedicated to those who smile through the pain — inspired by those who live in fear of being returned to the hell they fled. I interpret for counsellors who help torture survivors who have sought sanctuary in the UK. In spite
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Today’s blog post is a lovely documentary from writer Joe Minihane. Waterlog is a short documentary which tells the story of writer Joe Minihane and his battle with anxiety. Finding an antidote in the form of wild swimming Joe sets out to retrace the route of environmentalist Roger Deakin’s nature writing classic, Waterlog. In a
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In my work as a psychotherapist over the past decade I have come into contact with so many people who live with intense experiences of terror, fear, panic and anxiety. In this article I’m not talking so much about worrying, feeling tense, nervous or stressed. Not to diminish how difficult those experiences can be to
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By Natasha Devon I’ve been working in schools, colleges and universities delivering talks and conducting research on mental health for more than a decade. It made sense to me to target adolescents for a number of reasons, not least of which that the average onset age for the most common mental illnesses (depression, anxiety, eating
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By Lucy Nichol This was originally a thread I posted on Twitter one night about the reality of anxiety as an illness (hence the strange snippet like style!) I don’t know what a heart attack feels like. But I’ve had palpitations. I don’t know what a broken leg feels like. But I’ve had a sprain. Please don’t
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A Guest Blog by Cassie Steele “In panic, time stops: past, present and future exist as a single overwhelming force. You then, perversely,want time to appear to run forwards because the ‘future’ is the only place you can see an escape from this intolerable overload of feeling”- Sebastian Faulks, Engleby In his emotion-packed novel, ‘Engelby’
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By Lucy Nichol As someone with arachnophobia severe enough to make me dance like an incompetent Northern Soul fan whenever Incy Wincy makes a move on me, the advice I was given by a friend many years ago proved invaluable: “If you see a spider, imagine it in a disco dress – it won’t seem
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