Try to consciously do positive things that make you feel better, especially if you’re sad or grieving. Our emotions are much like a seesaw - they drop or rise, and when your head is trapped in a fuzzy haze, it can be hard to focus on much at all. During times like this it can [...]

Those of us who suffer with poor mental health frequently have poor coping techniques. This is often due to not being shown how to tackle problems: we’ve been raised in a dysfunctional manner. We have a fractured self-image, and find it hard to be kind about ourselves. Similarly, those of us who endure PTSD have [...]

There are days when we can’t even function on auto-pilot. Our anxieties, stress, or depression seem to have captured us: we’re thrown into a deep, dark pit. It is a cold and lonely state of mind. It can distort our vision and steal our intellect and rationality. We’re out of tune with every human function. [...]

Our human habit of claiming that we’re “good”, when we’re not, goes against the relatively new promotion of speaking openly about our mental health. A lasting side effect of trauma, for those of you who are trauma survivors, is the merciless theft of talking: many of us have inverted our feelings and largely function on [...]