Kim: Coping Strategies
When I was 12, I began self-harming. For me, this was for such a mixture of reasons as I am...
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Joe Willis: Must Love Dogs
Gender: Male Age: 25 Interested in: Men/Women The Key to my Heart is…Food I love a …Good G&T My Perfect...
Ruth Durkin: Gerry's Story
I took early retirement on the grounds of ill health when I was 42 and did some campaigning for mental...
Kat Love: On Being Black, Chinese and Queer
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Joan Ellis: The Practice of Poetry
It was November 2018 when I attended a Nature and Well-being course run by Connected Worlds. I wasn't sure and...
Marie: What OCD feels like to me
OCD is different for everyone, but this is my experience. My OCD is a constant nagging doubt. Have I left...
Rex: My Story
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Karolyn: Cry Baby
There are days when I am sad There is me, and there is sadness We sit side by side, and...
Marie: My New Identity
First a bit of context. I am getting treatment for OCD after a long journey to accepting that I couldn’t...
Joe Willis: ‘What’s Up With You”- My Daily Internal Gameshow
Joe 1: “Hello and welcome to another episode of ‘What’s Up With You?’, our daily internal gameshow written, produced and...
Mary Bottomley: Lockdown poem
Lockdown L stands for lonely even though I am married O stands for feeling like a outcast and not fitting...