Unless you’re wise enough to have added only close friends and family that you trust on social media, and to only engage with positive conversations, it’s likely that social media is seriously adding to your stress and anxiety. Many people say how bad they feel on there, yet continue to engage, without realising that theContinue reading “Something to Cut Down On”
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Stop Torturing Your Mind
Anxiety isn’t nice and it can make you feel slip into self blame and self loathing at times. Asking yourself over and over again why your mind has to do this, what’s wrong with you, why are you like this and other people aren’t? It’s something you need to stop doing. I’ve already covered inContinue reading “Stop Torturing Your Mind”
Living Under a Door
In the middle ages one of the ways in which a woman was tested for being a witch was to take a wooden door, lay it on top of her and put rocks on it. If she lived she was a witch, if she died she was innocent. The ultimate lose/lose situation. I used toContinue reading “Living Under a Door”
Writing a Crazy Book
Just a quick aside. I have an alter-ego called Mildred Scrunge, where the idea came from I don’t know, but I am a creative writer. Mildred is a law unto herself, refuses to conform with anything or anyone, and lives life by her own terms. What I find therapeutic about her is that she forcesContinue reading “Writing a Crazy Book”
Attitude IS Everything
Attitude is everything is one of those clichés which is in fact a simple statement of fact. Everything you think about creates the attitude with which you approach and live your life. At the moment we’re in a particularly turbulent time, perhaps the most unsettled time in my entire life – of over 63 years.Continue reading “Attitude IS Everything”
It IS a Difficult Time!
This might seem like an aside from the subject of anxiety, but it’s not. When you have anxiety, and even when you don’t, you can start blaming yourself for not coping with life in general and unexpected developments in particular. These thoughts, feelings, and corresponding emotions are completely understandable, and an equally complete waste ofContinue reading “It IS a Difficult Time!”
7 Billion People and…
…not one of them is perfect! The God Complex When I was first told I had this I felt really insulted, I do believe in God and to be told that I had a God complex was horrifying. However, my counsellor explained to me that it was a way of describing someone who tried toContinue reading “7 Billion People and…”
It’s Your Life
So, your anxiety isn’t clinical, that means that there’s something wrong with your life, which is good news because anything external can be changed, from the inside out! Change your mind change your life Although it’s obvious that physical factors will have to change in your life, if you don’t change the way you thinkContinue reading “It’s Your Life”
Story Break: My Life as 7 People
How I became 7 I thought it worth popping a bit of my story in at this point to illustrate how messed up I became. I’ll keep it short. By the time I was 23 there was nothing right in my life. I was in a miserable marriage, living in his grandparents old house (orContinue reading “Story Break: My Life as 7 People”
It Isn’t Just Your Mind
If you’ve concluded, or the doctor has told you, that your problems aren’t clinical, then they’re almost certainly not all in the mind, as some people may have made you feel. In this blog I want to encourage you not just to look at your life, that’s pretty obvious, but to look at the subtletiesContinue reading “It Isn’t Just Your Mind”