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Raw and Open: Loneliness can literally break your heart
We all need human contact. Human beings are social creatures by nature and although isolation is...
Missing Mom
I love you, Mom, please tuck me in. I miss you, Mom, the pain within. Your touch of love, is deeply missed. Your warmth & heart, too long the list. Your smile so...
Comfort in a lonely time
I write to share a recent experience which shows how strong the mental health stigma continues to be, even in a national medical...
Raw and Open: The Four Letter Word That Haunts Me
There is one four letter word that haunts me. It rattles around my head daily. It...
Not my first time at this rodeo
September 2018: Crying and in total despair, I struggled to walk to our local hospital with my 20-year-old daughter (who was on the...
Battling the demons everyday
There’s no hiding the fact that physically I’m very weak. Confined to a power wheelchair as a result of Muscular Dystrophy, there’s not...
Raw and Open: The SickNotWeak family
Compared to most people, I am relatively new (three to four years) to social media. I thought it was actually a bit pretentious,...
My triggers, my saviours
These are my triggers, but these are my saviours. We have Churchill to thank for his reminder that “attitude is a little thing...
The Diagnosis
In January of 2018, I was diagnosed with having the Bipolar 2 disorder for mental illness. To say my life has drastically changed since then would be huge understatement....
Isolation: My Natural Defence
A sign of my lowering mental health can be that I detach from the people I love most. I have low self-esteem and...
My greatest enemy
Since I was 14, I’ve woken up with this crippling feeling that I can’t possibly face the day. It’s almost as if some event today will be the moment that...
Raw and Open: The stigma of mental health
The statistics are jaw dropping. One in three girls and one in six boys will experience some form of severe trauma during their...
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