Stories

  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...

About a year and a half ago I was first treated for anxiety and depression. I was in my first year of university and have had some run-ins ...

       I was going to say that my mental health journey started four years ago, but in reality, it's been going on for my whole life. I experie...

       Somewhere in childhood I inherited the belief that I was not good enough. This wasn’t necessarily an outward message, but more of an interna...

  These pictures show my “then”, and my now. Then for me was a really bad place, a scary living nightmare and a place that I never thought I’d ...

     I became a mental health advocate when I became an online health coach. Around the time I was attending college, I became very depressed and ...

           I’ve always been shy. As a teen, I used to call myself “cripplingly shy.” My dream was to become “functionally shy.”   In 2018, I w...

     Depression & Anxiety are my mental illness. Only my close people know that. I always chose not to share that part of me because I didn’t ...

       For most of my life I have been struggling with OCD, depression and anxiety and I'm currently in recovery from an eating disorder.    No...

          This was it - my last appointment with the Psychiatrist. Conversations up until this point were mainly regarding medication increases. H...