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Do you like to write? I tried a poem…who knows if it’s any good.

If you’re hurting,
say it.
Say it messy.
Say it without knowing what comes next.
We don’t need the right words.
We just need real ones.

Sit with me.
I’ll sit with you.
We can swear.
We can be silent.
We can admit we’re scared of ou...
 
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Just cause I’m smiling doesn’t mean I’m okay.

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Just cause I’m smiling doesn’t mean I’m okay.

I’m not okay.

I smile, I laugh, I should be ok.

It doesn’t matter how much counselling I have, how many times I practice the coping methods, how many times I tell myself I am lucky, how often I take stock and evaluate. I always come ba...
 
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Dealing with the loss of my Grandma

There's no right or wrong way to grieve, and no one can tell you how to do it. If you feel comfort being at her grave and spending time there, do so! It's about finding your way to cope in the here and now while you come to terms with a ...
 
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Alternatives to Self-Harm: Things Some People Use When the Urge Hits

If you’re here because urges come and go, you’re not alone in that. For many people, the urge isn’t about wanting to die — it’s about needing the feeling to stop, or needing something to cut through numbness.

Different things help differe...
 
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Some things people often get wrong about self-harm and suicidal thoughts

This is one of those topics people lower their voice for. Or avoid entirely. Usually not because they don’t care, but because they’re scared of saying the wrong thing.

That silence creates a lot of misunderstanding.

Self-harm and suicida...
 
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7 Signs You’re Experiencing Decision Fatigue (Not Indecisiveness)

Decision fatigue is rarely talked about directly. Most people assume they’re bad at making choices, lazy, or overthinking. In reality, many are dealing with mental overload that makes decisions feel heavier than they should.

Decision fati...
 
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9 Ways Task Paralysis Is Different From Procrastination (And Why That Matters)

Procrastination gets talked about a lot. Task paralysis doesn’t.

They’re often treated as the same thing, but many people who say they’re “procrastinating” are actually dealing with something else entirely. Task paralysis looks similar on...
 
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Dealing with the loss of my Grandma

I miss my grandma more than I know what to do with.

It didn’t hit me at the funeral. I thought I was coping. I got through it, spoke to people, did what you’re meant to do. Then weeks later it just slammed into me out of nowhere. Like my ...
 
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11 Little-Known Signs of Functional Freeze (And Why It’s Often Missed)

Most people have heard of fight or flight. Fewer people know about freeze — and almost no one talks about what happens when freeze doesn’t look dramatic.

Functional freeze is a term some people use to describe a state where you’re ...
 
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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

PTSD can develop after experiencing or witnessing something deeply distressing. Not everyone who goes through trauma develops PTSD, and not everyone with PTSD experienced the same kind of event.

There isn’t one type of trauma that “counts...
 
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Social Anxiety Disorder

Social anxiety disorder isn’t about being shy or disliking people. It’s about fear around being seen, judged, or evaluated by others, often to an intense degree.

People with social anxiety usually know their fears aren’t logical. That doe...
 
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Panic Disorder

Panic disorder is linked to panic attacks, but it’s more than just having one or two. It’s the fear of them happening again, and the way that fear starts to shape everyday life.

A panic attack can come on suddenly. Heart racing. Breathing...
 
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Generalised anxiety disorder

Generalised anxiety disorder, often shortened to GAD, is about ongoing anxiety rather than occasional worry. Most people worry sometimes. With GAD, the worrying doesn’t really switch off.

It isn’t always tied to one specific thing. In fac...
 
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What is Depression?

Depression isn’t just feeling sad. Most people know that part already. What’s harder to explain is how it can change everything quietly, without there being a clear moment where it starts.

For some people it’s low mood. For others it’s mo...
 
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Why do I feel empty even when life looks fine?

View attachment 9From the outside, things might look okay.

You’re functioning.

You’re doing what you’re supposed to do.

Maybe you even have things going for you that other people would want.

Yet s...
 
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Health Anxiety + Kidney Cysts

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Health Anxiety + Kidney Cysts

Managed to switch off for the holidays some how, but ... on Monday I will have to ring the doctors and find out what happens next.
 
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Why do I feel tired all the time even when I sleep?

You might be getting to bed.

You might be sleeping through the night.

And still, you wake up feeling like you haven’t really rested.

That kind of tiredness is frustrating because sleep is supposed to fix it. When it doesn’t, you start w...
 
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