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Multiple Diagnoses
Content warning: mental health Living with multiple mental health conditions, it can be challenging to identify what’s contributing to how I’m feeling and behaving. Sometimes, the distinction is unimportant,...
Trauma versary
My ex-partner used to say to me “Why do you keep track of the dates when your traumas happened? Wouldn’t be better for you to just forget?” and something about that question always bothered me. On principal, of...
Talking to men about mental health
Talking to men about mental health Has this ever happened to you? You look at a mate and you see he doesn’t look right. You ask, ‘are you OK?’ and he says, ‘all good here’. However, you can clearly tell that he’s not...
Walking in Nature
When I was a teenager, I was both mentally and physically unwell. I was so depressed I didn’t want to get out of bed, and so exhausted that I couldn’t if I tried. However, in the years before my issues were eventually...
Prioritise sleep
In today’s society, being busy is seen as a stamp of success. Inspirational instagram accounts will encourage you to “hustle harder” or “always be grinding”. Sleep is a waste of time. Sleep is for the weak. I’ll sleep...
Mental Health Supports
For me, mental health supports have included a whole range of resources and lots of people. I always had a longing to meet with other people that were like me, who would understand me. I wanted to have friends and I...
Learning to friend
Learning to "Friend” For many years of my life, I felt like a complete outsider. Struggling with mental health issues from an early age meant that I isolated myself – wrapped up in anxiety and terrified of saying the...
Infertility
Infertility: The grief that keeps on giving People end up childless for many reasons. For some it’s a choice, for others it’s something they never got around to. For someone else it might be because they never...
Indigenous Mental Health
Resilience Runs in Our Veins Too As an Indigenous person you are often told that the trauma of your ancestors lives in your very genetic make-up – and it’s true, it does – but what is often forgotten is that the...