Mental Health and Mental Illness are not the Same Thing
I have an issue. Okay, I have many issues but I’ll get to that later. I have a problem with how people use the terms mental health and mental illness interchangeably. And I am...
Tagged: mental illness
#metoo? – I am a survivor but feel excluded
Trigger Warning: This post discusses sexual violence, rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment. I am a survivor of sexual assault and rape. It took me years to even recognize that this is a fact....
Recovery From Mental Illness? – Healing, Self-Management and Improvement of Quality of Life
Let me start with that I don’t believe in that recovery is something to work towards when you struggle with mental illness. Recovery, for me, would mean getting to a place of where you...
Medicalisation of Society – Trauma
This is an older post on mental health that I have written on another blog of mine. You can find the original post from April 2018 here. Different times in history have had a...
Triggers – Going Down To Trigger Town
The word trigger is overused these days. And because of that, most people don’t take it seriously when someone legitimately expresses that they have been triggered. Instead of its original meaning, which is being...
Trauma Ruins Your Body Just As Much As It Ruins Your Mind
I wanted to write a post about perfectionism and imposter syndrome (which I periodically struggle with) but decided to write about a topic that has been spooking in my mind for quite some time,...
“Crazy Fucks Best!” – Making The Mentally Ill Seem Sexually Deviant And Inferior
Let me start this off by saying that I dislike when people use the term “crazy” to describe someone. It is a derogatory way of saying that someone is mentally ill. But the mental...
A Near Miss
It is a little bit odd how most of my posts the last few days have been about my struggles, my past, my mental illness and my emotional pain. I don’t necessarily love writing...
Flashbacks, Intimacy and Sex
(Trigger warning: There is going to be some talk of emotional and sexual abuse in this post) His Hands on Me I am on my back. His hands are on my shoulders, holding me...
Ashamed of who I am
There are going to be moments when you need to make that one decision. How much do you let someone know about who you are? How vulnerable do you allow yourself to be with...
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