My word for this year is HEALTH. Whilst I intended this primarily to mean physical health, due to the fact that I had an awful physical time of it last year, I realise that health means good mental wellbeing too. I have clinical depression. I try to ignore it, but like most things detrimental to…
Category: MENTAL ILLNESS
A love note to myself {and I encourage you to do the same}
Below is a love letter to myself. It is Day 12 of the #reverb14 and this was the task for today. I found it incredibly difficult to write. It felt narcissistic and wrong. And yet, by doing so I was able to acknowledge the value of myself as a person. As a person with depression…
We need to talk about mental illness, depression and suicide NOW!
I went to see The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 today. It was awesome. I loved the book and I loved the movie. But throughout the movie I could not help but feel sad. As Philip Seymour Hoffman graced the screen in the effortless way that was his acting style, I couldn’t help but…
Don’t judge the depressive person – be their seratonin buddy
A friend of mine and I were talking the other day. We were talking about depression. She hates that I can reach such deep lows. She hates that I can even have a dalliance with the idea of suicide. She sees the beauty in me as a person, the value in what I am and…
Introducing my entry to #Edenland – the International Lip Syncing Awards
Before I started blogging, I didn’t really follow blogs. I would read them, but not really follow them as such. When I started my blogging journey that changed. I now follow a number of blogs – That Summer Feeling, Zinc Moon, Rare Pear Studio, Make Plus Do to name a few. But one I follow…
An ode to the rainbow and the uniqueness of its colours
I’m going to struggle to find the words. I know I am. The words to describe the warmth I feel right now. The words to describe that despite still feeling dark in places, the light is beginning to find its way through. The words to describe what it feels like to find a group of…
How to organise your laundry
I don’t usually do how-to posts. I’m all about the emotion of living life, not necessarily organising it. There are far more better qualified people that talk about organising than I ever could. For one, I can’t be bothered with the relentless photo staging and taking. Who has time for that? However, you will…
Declutter your life, improve your depression
It is no secret that I suffer from severe depression. Lately, it has been getting worse. Suicidal thoughts have even started creeping in. Well, more like urging me emphatically. I yell at them to fuck off, but, you know, it’s as scary as shit. When I wake in the morning, there is a period of…
How to be confident – a course
I have no confidence. It’s true. I lack that inherent belief in myself that so many confident people seem to have. When I was 13, my parents sent me to visit friends of theirs that lived over 600 kilometres away. They owned horses and I was mad on horses. My parents could not afford to…