Category: Mental Health
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Downward Spirals – What Does My Mental Health and WWI Pilots Have In Common.
No Parachutes…… WWI Pilots would fly without parachutes, feeling it better to go down with the plane than jump out, so once the plane was hit and sufficiently damaged it meant it would be on a forever downwards trajectory from there on in. In a similar vain once dark thoughts, start to manifest and your…
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Its all going horribly wrong
Well it’s been one of those weeks, i have managed to break my walking stick, resulting in me plunging headlong into the road, I have managed to lose my Blue Badge, within the confines of my own home and then to top it off i have a raft of hospital appointments coming up this week…
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Depression isn’t Contagious, You Can’t Catch It!
I have found that one of the worst parts of mental illness especially depression is the loneliness and despair you can feel, if like me you feel alone in a room full of people, imagine spending the last 4 or 5 years essentially in isolation. When my illness really started to show, it was around…
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So Long Dave, and thanks for all the eggs…
I have been living with chronic pain for nearly a year now and it has slowly gotten worse, episodes used to be a couple of hours and easily treated with fairly standard pain killers, now I have a lot more episodes sometimes lasting days, when even the likes of Tramadol and Oramorph won’t cut it,…