Stories

I was always known to be “the happy one”. Always known for positivity, and looking on the bright side of, well, everything. If it was the mo...

  I remember the moment I realised I had anxiety so clearly. After what I thought was just normal anxious feelings during some stressful life event...

  My life drastically changed shortly after my 15th birthday. I was sexually assaulted.  I was diagnosed with Severe Depression and Sever...

 My name is Shani. When I was 11, I lost my dad to suicide - two days after Christmas in 2009. Since then, I’ve developed generalised anxiety.  I...

  When I was 16, things with my mental health started to get really bad. I was struggling with anxiety, depression and more, and it all hit me ...

I was diagnosed with a generalized anxiety disorder and a panic disorder when I was 11 years old. I struggled so hard to go to school. I made goo...

For as long as I can remember, I was an anxious person. There were times I wondered why I had that butterflies in my stomach feeling for no reaso...

My experiences of anxiety, depression, anorexia nervosa and self harm are rooted in different events which have occurred throughout my life, and...

The past couple of years, I’ve suffered from an anxiety disorder that severely disturbed my day to day life. I experienced panic attacks during s...

  I’ve always waffled on telling my mental health journey, I think because I have never felt that it is worth telling. And isn’t that, in and o...

     Where do I begin? . . . Most people can draw a finger to their first kiss, love, or even their favourite teenage memory. I can’t, but I can d...

     It felt like there was something very wrong with me.  I suffered in silence, yet my husband and my newborn son heard my cries, my screa...