Blurt Foundation: Stamping Out The Stigma, One Word At A Time
Depression, take a good look at these shoes. Why? Because they are going to kick your backside so hard you’ll never want to come back. They may just be a pair of running shoes, but there is something special about them. They are the shoes I’ll be wearing as I train for the Jane Tomlinson [...]
When I was fist diagnosed with depression my GP asked whether I had ever not been depressed, to which I glibly replied: ‘Oh yes, it’s not always been like this.’ ‘Good,’ he said, ‘then we know what we’re aiming for, we know we need to get you back to feeling how you were feeling before.’ [...]
Since being diagnosed with depression two years ago, my MA (master’s degree) photographic practice adopted a self-psychoanalytical approach in an attempt to try and understand more about my depression and how it affects my mental state. The concept of using self-psychoanalysis to build up a case study of my depression, owed its methodological technique to [...]
It doesn’t happen often. But next time anybody asks me how to deal with depression, I’ll tell them to read other people’s writing about their experience of it. I get a lot out of reminding myself that my thoughts and behaviours – as nasty and frightening as they can be – aren’t unique. And that [...]
As I explained in my last blog, I have faced discrimination from employers after I revealed I have clinical depression. This has been a massive problem for me, and has made me ill. I looked to my nearest and dearest to get the love and support that I needed. Actually, before I go any further [...]
I first felt I might be depressed when I began high school. I struggled to fit in and my Dad left home shortly after. I self harmed for the first time at twelve years old. They were just scratches but they covered my entire right forearm. Nobody said anything – they just distanced themselves. I [...]
“I know I have a good life. That’s what’s so depressing. I can’t help it.” – Stephen Fry Nowadays, you hear a lot of people talking about depression. It’s got a lot more mainstream as a diagnosis, and it’s actually possible to admit you have it without people misunderstanding. But that’s still a very rare [...]
What is freedom? I can only imagine Dream of what freedom might be What freedom might feel like. For me, freedom comes in conjunction with peace, contentment, safety, love. I want to be free. I want to be able to run and jump, Spread my wings and let God take me where He will. To [...]
They say that the hardest point in a person’s life is when nobody understands them, but I disagree, in my opinion the hardest point in a person’s life is when, they don’t understand themselves. It is impossible to explain to somebody how you are feeling if you don’t even know. ‘What are you scared of?’ [...]
It’s truly amazing that, in the second decade of the twenty-first century, people with mental health problems are still being discriminated against. My experience is that, particularly with employers, discrimination is still very much alive and well. I am a thirty-nine year old bus driver and have been somewhere on the mental health spectrum for [...]
