When the stomach bug makes you anxious

When the stomach bug makes you anxious

by | Oct 19, 2025 | Mental Health

(This is what the virus that causes most stomach bugs looks like. Fairly innocent and innocuous until it hits your system and makes you ill!) No one likes the stomach bug. No one enjoys when it lurches it’s nasty way into your system, and makes you ill, and...
Living with Imposter syndrome

Living with Imposter syndrome

by | Feb 25, 2022 | Mental Health

When you have lived with imposter syndrome all of your life, but didn’t realise it is an actual “thing” the relief that you feel when it turns out it’s not just you, and that there are ways to combat it, is life changing. Impostor syndrome (IS)...
Anxiety & Me: What made you have anxiety?

Anxiety & Me: What made you have anxiety?

by | Aug 21, 2019 | Mental Health

What made you “have anxiety?” I have always been a “more anxious” person. As far back as I can remember I know I had feelings of anxiety that seemed to be not normal. I used to worry about my family dying, I worried about getting sick, things on the news...
Anxiety & Me: What made you have anxiety?

Winter is bad for my mental health.

by | Feb 15, 2019 | Mental Health

This is the first time I have voiced the sentence “winter is bad for my mental health” aloud. “Winter is bad for my mental health”. I have thought it for the longest time, but then dismissed that thought as silly, hippy talk. Too much Doctor...
Back I go. Week 2 of therapy.

Back I go. Week 2 of therapy.

by | Nov 15, 2018 | Mental Health

Today is therapy day. Session 2. Last week’s session was rushed and because I was nervous about what would happen and be said, and because I had rather stupidly overloaded my morning both before and after the session, taking on too many tasks and other people’s...