If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people.” Virginia Woolf
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Thinking || The Anxiety Diaries – Epilogue
Thinking || The Anxiety Diaries – Part 3
Previously on The Anxiety Diaries, Martha diagnosed herself with psychosis and crossed her fingers that her boyfriend wasn’t dying on the other side of the door – find out what’s next for our Little Looney Tune in the final installment of the series!
Thinking || The Anxiety Diaries – Part 2
Last night on The Anxiety Diaries, Wanda wouldn’t shut up about sugar and Martha started hallucinating in the middle of the night. Will she get any sleep tonight? WHO KNOWS! It’s all going on in Martha’s head, stay with us folks!
Thinking || The Anxiety Diaries – Part 1
“Whenever I write about my own anxiety, I tend to do so with perspective and distance. The way we discuss mental health is such that we’re happy to let people talk about it as long as they seem out of the woods” – Daisy Buchanan
Thinking || The Grounding Power of Touch
During my routine Pool perusal, I happened across Ella Risbridger’s blog “Sometimes it’s the Little Things”. It’s a moving, funny, generally wonderful journey through lipstick and loving a man with cancer, and I can’t recommend it highly enough. Continue reading “Thinking || The Grounding Power of Touch”
Thinking || The Tyranny of ‘What If?’
I wrote recently about how I had lost my voice. How Generalised Anxiety Disorder was metaphorically crushing my vocal chords, paralysing my tongue and sewing my lips shut. Continue reading “Thinking || The Tyranny of ‘What If?’”
Thinking || Anxiety Inside Out
Trigger warning – mentions of extreme anxiety.
In honour of Time to Talk Day, I thought I’d revisit the story of GAD and Wanda, told through the medium of Inside Out Bitmojis. Because, why the hell not? Continue reading “Thinking || Anxiety Inside Out”
Thinking || Finding My Voice
In 2015, I had a problem with my voice. Or more accurately, allowing myself to have a voice. Continue reading “Thinking || Finding My Voice”
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