Social Services vs. actual support
I’ve been a little quiet lately, thought I should explain what has been going on. Especially as I am very angry and need to get this off my chest. We have been referred to Social Services, this …
Category Archives: Mental Health
Trigger Warnings
Let me start by saying, so many trigger warnings for this post. I realised I have written, briefly, about this before, but it is a very emotional post written while in distress. It’s not actuall…
Mental health and male privilege
This tweet popped up on my timeline, I was busy at the time, so I didn’t see the context or know about any twitter storm. It irritated me though, and I expected better from this particular perso…
Guest Post: Guilty until proven healthy
This is a guest post written by my husband. – MoG The following is written not by a reactionary, or a devoted fan of a former lib dem MP. I think social services is a generally hard working and …
Preparing for Samhain
Some of you may be thinking I’m a little bit early, some more of you may be thinking, “what on earth is Samhain?” I best start with answering that question. It’s a Pagan festiv…
“Well you look fine now” – disability and eating disorders
I went to see a counsellor a few years back, it was about 6 or so months after my health problems had started. I took a deep breath and decided to speak, for the very first time to anyone, about my di…
The Diet Industry and triggers
I have to admit, this is a post about a specific conversation. But it got me thinking, and it got me thinking about something that I find tough to think about. So I figured getting it out of my system…
#EDAW2015, #effyourbeautystandards, #spoonieproblems and self hate (TW)
I don’t get on with my body very much. In fact that’s quite an understatement. And today that self loathing hit me like a sledgehammer. I’ve got a romantic day out with my husband pl…
Honesty, trust, mental health and health care professionals
Have had a less than positive experience recently with a local hospital, which is a shame because on the whole we’ve always had a lot of help at this particular hospital. And we’ve been th…
A 2014 recap: Puking, parenting, pain and feminism
It has been an interesting year, thought I’d go through it with some blog posts. Started the year puking, while technically this is a post from last December, it is exactly how January started f…
