Lyle: Facing Unreality: My Experience with DPDR
It’s an April evening in 2024, spring is in full swing, and dark winter skies have given way to drawn-out...
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Lucy Hamilton: Lessons Learned From a Month in Quarantine
On the 24th January 2020, I woke up in our 12th floor apartment in China with the New Year holiday...
Anne Sophie Cornelius: I Cut Off My Abuser Two Years Ago And Here’s What’s Happened Since
For those who don’t know, two years ago I made the soul-wrenchingly liberating decision to say “enough is enough, treat...
Josh: Why I’m Grateful to Be Alive
Before my breakdown, I was working a stressful job that made me a lot of my money. I was OBSESSED...
Trish Chester: I Want to Tell You a Story
“Are you sitting comfortably …” “The courage it takes to share your story might be the very thing someone else...
Anne Sophie: A Letter to the Person I Could Have Been
I have been wondering about you since I started therapy. You’re more mythical than Bigfoot. I’ve only caught you in...
Karolyn: My Journey
These three poems illustrate a journey I have been on with my mental health in the last few years. Although...
Trish Chester: Silver Linings
David Essex seductively assured me (with a cheeky pause) 'every cloud's got a silver --- lining', and Jeff Beck greeted...
Ruth Durkin: How to Talk to a Friend
If a friend confides in you that they are feeling unwell in terms of depression, anxiety, stress or any other...
Ella Donnison: Lonely This Christmas
Loneliness is a tough subject. It can feel like there's no one to talk things through with or even have...
Anne Sophie Cornelius: 18 lessons I learned last year
Last year was a wild ride, but one full of lessons and experiences that I really needed. Here is what...