Lessons From Depression

Lessons From Depression

I last took anti depressant medication in 2018. With the passing of time, there is a temptation to avoid thinking about the illness. Especially as it affected me for at least eleven years, in varying degrees of severity and ways it presented. However, there has been...
Lessons From Depression

Workout To Help Out

Lockdown in the UK is setting us challenges to keep committed to the ways to wellbeing and other routes to good mental health. Image from www.signals.org.uk Whilst opportunities to connect are largely restricted to online methods, there is great potential to maximise...
Lessons From Depression

Barriers To Listening

Listening. For something that is done every day, I was taken aback by how bad I can be at it. It has made me think that for every person encouraged to speak there needs to be a competent listener. My understanding of the barriers we can all have to listening properly...
Eight Years On

Eight Years On

Post-Christmas 2011, amongst friends watching the darts at my flat, things seemed to have evened out. He was relaxed, laughing with us all and trying to divert the conversation back to cricket. I imagine other people have moments like that where, for perhaps just a...
RecoverMe

RecoverMe

We are currently in the middle of Safer Gambling Week in the UK, a period dedicated to promoting ways to avoid problems in this area. Having seen the text advertising this on Fulham’s shirts in their game against Everton it reminded me of how high the profile of the...