It’s a question I’ve asked myself many times. It’s a question that most people who experience mental health difficulties ask themselves. Especially in the early days. When maybe they don’tContinue reading “What is wrong with me?”
Category Archives: mental health
6 months in – mental health and the pandemic
I keep hearing people talk about the mental health impact of the pandemic. But as with seemingly everything else in life, people are polarised about it. There are the peopleContinue reading “6 months in – mental health and the pandemic”
Life as Trauma
What is trauma to you? What do you understand by the term? The dictionary gives us two definitions – (a) severe emotional shock and pain caused by an extremely upsettingContinue reading “Life as Trauma”
Online Mental Health First Aid
What a whirlwind couple of months! If it has taught me anything it is that plans mean nothing, that order can come from chaos, and that we as human beingsContinue reading “Online Mental Health First Aid”
Supporting Staff Working from Home in a Crisis
Nothing is Normal. Everything is Normal.
Every conversation I am having is starting with something on the lines of “isn’t everything very strange”. Many of us, across the world, find our world has been turned upsideContinue reading “Nothing is Normal. Everything is Normal.”
Children’s Mental Health Week. A rant.
I hear a lot of comments as I do the rounds of my training, a lot of thoughts and opinions, pre-judgements about mental health. Some thoughtful, insightful, some stigmatised/stigmatising, offensiveContinue reading “Children’s Mental Health Week. A rant.”
Diagnosis
In my previous job, as a librarian, I knew well the importance of metadata. Of correct labelling. Sometimes, the labels and descriptors that we assign to an item help usContinue reading “Diagnosis”
Self Harm – the crashing of the waves on an ocean
Last week saw a flood of stories on the prevalence of self harm amongst our young people and especially girls and LGBTQ+ youth, stemming from the publication of the Children’sContinue reading “Self Harm – the crashing of the waves on an ocean”
Cause of Death – not just suicide we need to worry about.
I was just checking to see if there were any updated statistics yet on the number of suicides in the UK – not yet. I wanted to see if lastContinue reading “Cause of Death – not just suicide we need to worry about.”