A for Anxiety

Do you really want to know what my anxiety feels like? Close your eyes. You’ll find yourself alone in the front carriage of a rollercoaster. You can hear and see people around you below on the ground, laughing and chatting. You think you might even recognise some of them. You wave to them and yell……

Removing the mask

I’d like to begin by apologising. It’s been a long time since I shared my deepest secrets with you all and posted my first bebravebehonest blog. I guess that I was so overwhelmed by the response that I didn’t quite know how to follow it up. After mulling it over for a few weeks wondering……

In admiration…

By Tim Clement I should start this contribution with a foreword to apologise for any ignorance I may portray. My only experiences of mental health have been second hand, so I cannot pretend to truly understand what sufferers go through. That might make my point come across as somewhat patronising to some, but I want……

Why we need to put ‘health’ back into ‘mental health’

They say a picture says a thousand words. I think the one above says a billion. From a young age we learn the importance of plastering a cut. We practise playing doctors and nurses; attempting to cure any ailment (real or imaginary) our parents may have had with our bandages and a plastic stethoscope. As…