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Tag: Mental illness

Letters to Little Sarah – 17.08.2021

Posted on August 18, 2021October 3, 2021 by Sarah

Before you read this first entry in Letters to Little Sarah, I wanted to give some context of how this came about. In May 2020, I was diagnosed with Autism. I was 52. A diagnosis of ADHD followed a year later. Whilst I thought discovering I was neurodivergent would immediately make me feel better, it…

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The self we cannot see

Posted on June 9, 2021October 3, 2021 by Sarah

How did I get here? To this place, where I have no place? I look to the right of me and I see a ghost. A ghost of a person who has walked beside me my whole life – a child really. A ghost of a little girl who has been waiting for me, but…

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Recovery is a dish best served cold.

Posted on June 7, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

{I wrote this post a few weeks ago.  I’ve been immersed in my recovery and have not wanted to share this yet.  I’m ready now.  A few posts regarding my recovery – from alcoholism, addiction and depression – will be following shortly.  What is important is that there is light at the end of the tunnel….

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Goodbye and hello – a journey to the light

Posted on January 19, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

“I feel like such a failure”. I’m sitting opposite my friend.  We are having coffee.  She wanted to see me before I go away. I haven’t told a lot of people about me going away, even though it is here on my blog. Telling the wider world doesn’t feel as personal somehow, though a few…

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The family gathering

Posted on January 11, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I pick up the phone and make the call. “Hey Pumpkin, it’s mom.  Dad and I have something we would like to tell you.  Can you come over at 8:30, just on your own.” Miss J and R have a friend over to stay but this isn’t something I want to tell them.  For now,…

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The phone call that starts a journey to recovery

Posted on January 9, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I look at the phone. I pick it up.  I put it down.  I pace.  I pick it up again. “Sarah, you need to make the call.” Mr C had said. Tears trickled down my cheeks. “I’m not that bad,” I plead, “I don’t need this.  I can manage, I am FINE!” When I grew…

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Letting go, breathing deep

Posted on January 4, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I wake up feeling groggy. Mr C’s alarm goes off.  A new day, a new year, and work begins again. I have not slept well. I have not been sleeping well for the longest time. Late to sleep, early to rise.  Not enough sleep.  By a long margin. I am fatigued, groggy, unproductive. I grab…

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Writing every day for mental wellness

Posted on January 1, 2017March 21, 2022 by Sarah

Today is the start of a brand new year. I’ve woken up feeling exceedingly uncomfortable, but in a (sort of) good way. Last night we went to Clover Cottage with some friends for New Years’ Eve. Clover Cottage is a restaurant in Berwick.  Or rather they were a restaurant.  Apparently, they have been there for forty…

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Do not read this if you want a post about sweetness and light

Posted on December 29, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

TRIGGER WARNING: POST MENTIONS SUICIDAL IDEATION. I have a mental illness. I live with mental illness. We aren’t supposed to talk about it I know.  Just recently, I was told that I tend to exaggerate my fears and make things out to be much worse than they really are. Yes, yes I do. This is…

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A journey of healing

Posted on October 4, 2016March 21, 2022 by Sarah

I wake up to the burning sensation in my stomach.  I clutch it, curling into a ball.  2am. I close my eyes, willing myself to breathe in, breathe out.  Please, brain, don’t go into overdrive tonight.  Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out.  I feel the rise and fall of my burning abdomen. What…

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