Tag: mental health
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How do you fight mental health stigma?
This subject is extremely close to my heart, not only because I have struggled with my own mental health, but because I’ve seen friends struggle too. Friends who if you knew them, you would never have guessed. So, how do you fight mental health stigma? It’s a perplexing process. The thing with mental health is…
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Why doesn’t she just leave?
Trigger warning – Domestic Violence & Abuse I was 16 years old when I established my first proper relationship. He was 3 years older than me. At first, things were great, I thought I’d found true love. I thought I’d found the man I was going to spend the rest of my life with. The…
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What is happy?
Following on from my ‘about me’ introduction. I’m a 39 year old single, full time working mum. As a little girl, I had dreams of marrying a handsome prince, having children and living in a castle without a care in the world. Although as I grew up, I knew this wasn’t a realistic dream (well,…