Over the weekend, I contacted a number of friends asking how they felt when they found out about my overdose.…

A lot can happen in two weeks. You can lose everything, as so many people around the world are now…

Bipolar II is... my diagnosis. Not my choice. Bipolar II is characterised by Dr Jim Phelps as "mood swings but…

People with eating disorders often talk about the eating disorder voice that natters away, telling us what to do. Or…

I challenge anyone not to collapse to some degree under all the stress I experienced. The grief and trauma of…

It's been a wild ride. My last two days at the clinic were focused on discussing healthy ways of managing…

Forty three days down. Nine to go. I am ready - but glad to have these last nine days to…

g things I have to share. And it's not because I only focus on the negative - I promise! It's…

Today's psychology task - write two letters. One from my body to me. One from me to my body. Here…

Today I'm very sad. I guess it was inevitable. After 25 years of marriage I don't normally blink an eye…

One of our tasks in group therapy today was to "create three characters to live in your own 'Land of…

Today I am afraid of recovery. I've been in this place before - where I've felt the beginnings of change…

As I may have mentioned once or thrice, I suck at art. And the thought of doing art therapy leaves…

I've spent a lifetime as a highly anxious person pretending it wasn't so and secretly not coping. Nobody knew. I…

So in contrast to my previous post on resilience, I now concede that in some areas of my life I…