Coming Clean
The strange thing about the internet, and particularly blogging, is that it’s often easier to disclose your deepest, darkest feelings to a world wide web full of strangers than to the people you’ve known all…
Category: Anxiety
Parenting with Anxiety – Guest Post by Josephine Ruggieri
I couldn’t be happier with the response to this series so far, thanks so much for everyone who read and commented on Min’s post last week. We have lots of really wonderful writers lined up…
Meeting the #pndfamily
Regular readers will know that perinatal mental health features regularly in this blog, following my own experience of PND and anxiety in 2013 (and brief anxiety relapse last year). You have also probably heard me…
How Do You Self-Care?
I’ve touched on self-care several times previously but today I thought I’d share the (sometimes) random activities I partake in as a means of looking after my emotional wellbeing. Self-care is important for everyone but…
10 Things I’ve Gained from Postnatal Depression
PND is such a frightening and terrible experience, one than I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy and one that I desperately don’t want to repeat. To indicate that there are positives to such an…
Who Am I Now? Identity After Motherhood
This post was originally written as a guest post for Mum Plus Business, a website dedicated to helping mums set up their own business or move into flexible working. You expect a great deal to change when…
Five Tips For Managing Anxiety & Depression During The Holiday Period
One of the worst things about Postnatal Depression is that it’s a period of depression during a time when society expects you to be at your happiest. Similarly, dealing with any depression or mental health…
Knowledge is power: The Importance of Research in Treating Postnatal Illness
This post was originally written as a guest blog for MQ. MQ is a new charity, set up to transform mental health through research, to ease suffering and improve the lives of everyone affected by mental…
Sharing PND & Anxiety With My GP
This post is not about bashing GPs. There are some truly wonderful medical professionals in this country, and abroad, who do very important work, especially in the mental health field. I have met several of…
12 Tools For Managing Anxiety
I’ve posted several intense posts previously about the anxiety symptoms I have experienced (insomnia, intrusive thoughts, derealisation to name a few) so I decided now might be a good time to list in one place…