Post’s relating to mental and physical health issues. Sarah herself suffers from a range of issues including; BPD (borderline personality disorder), depression and anxiety disorder, fibromyalgia, ME, hypermobility syndrome and keratoconus.
There are many things we can all take for granted in life, I know for me my eyesight is one. First of all, it was just that I could see, then that while my vision wasn’t great it could be corrected by glasses and most lately that it can be corrected by contact lenses. Over…
As we continue to move forward as a society when it comes to talking about and dealing with mental health issues we are able to look at issues across all age ranges. For a long time the feeling that only adults were capable of having serious mental health issues was propped up by the “…
Let’s face it, art and music have long since been the outlet of many famous people who suffered from mental health issues. Looking at the very top of the tree people like Van Gough were clearly suffering but in the more contemporary world musicians like Kurt Cobain and more recently Chester Bennington not only found…
I’ve spoken before about how I became a survivor of domestic abuse, I was quite young when I got into my first abusive relationship and sadly others can be the same age and younger. Today Joy from Pinkoddy, speaks openly about how she found herself in a violent relationship at a young age. Domestic Violence…
Last week I asked a question which I guess in ways lead to me questioning myself about aspects of my identity. My question was: does anyone know of any good screen reading software? The question asked of me was: are you visually impaired? This was something I had never thought of before, of course, there…
Domestic Abuse – it is something that sadly too many people are subject to. Read this story of a domestic abuse survivor.
Fibromyalgia is both a common pain disorder and one that is commonly is misunderstood. If I had a pound for all the times I was told to just exercise and I’ll be better, or to snap out of it, I would probably be a rich person. So to try and dispell a few myths here are…
I’ve long had health issues, I’ve touched on the some of it in previous posts (such as this one about my mental health issues). In my early 20s after getting myself back on my feet after some abusive relationships, I started to get myself back on track. I had started Open University studying Criminology and…
