“And I write this to encourage all of you out there who are stroking the Black Dog, who endure the gray days with a Blitz spirit, as I do.” Vegimite Vix When Carol from Dance Without Sleeping asked if I’d mind holding a mental health carnival, I agreed in an instant. Mental illness, of all […]
Guest post: on depression and talking therapies
Caron Lindsay who blogs at Caron’s Musings responds to news that Nick Clegg has ring fenced £400million to help people with depression and anxiety with a touching personal story. Imagine you’re trapped at the bottom of a seemingly endless mine shaft. There is no light, and the walls are like glass and you can’t get […]
Guest post: On depression and cancer…
Audrey Birt, Director for Scotland of Breakthrough Breast Cancer, was herself recently diagnosed with breast cancer. She has written this piece to join in the mental heath carnival. In my own blog, I discuss how I was diagnosed with early breast cancer twice in my life and how breast cancer treatment helped me overcome […]
Guest post: It was the summer of 2011 and the city streets were burning.
Michelle White has sent this piece in to join in the mental health carnival.It was the summer of 2011 and the city streets were burning. People called it a perfect storm, recession, poverty, racial tensions and balmy nights. I watched in horror as places of my childhood were destroyed. It felt as though England was […]
Come to my mental health carnival for blog posts
Later this month I’m hosting a blog carnival and the subject is mental heath. This is not as one wag suggested “where we all mentally get dressed in feathers and visualise with calming mood music dancing down a street”. Although I wouldn’t rule that out if it works. What I’m talking about is mental heath or the […]