“I’ve done everything wrong this week” – That’s how I started today’s therapy session. And I believed it. Everything has gone to pot and I thought it was my fault (a huge part of me still does). I’m not trying hard enough, I’m not getting anywhere, I’m not functioning in the slightest, bad coping mechanisms… Continue reading “I’ve done everything wrong this week”
- Compassionate Other: The Muggle’s Patronus (Or How to Create Your Own Source of Compassion)
- Professionals’ Feelings in Therapeutic Relationships
- An Example of Crisis Team Excellence
- Difficult Anniversaries with Mental Health Problems
- Cautious, Guilt-Ridden Gratitude (and the O word that shall not be named)
- The Importance of Good Therapeutic Relationships and the Terror of Personality Disorders
- I am NOT broken
- Peer Support Project – ‘Fight Song’
- The Ones Who Make a Difference
- ‘The Crisis Team Cure: A Parody of Advice Commonly Given to Vulnerable & Distressed People in Mental Health Crisis’
- Attempted Suicide after 4 Days in Intensive Care
- Shut Up or Complain: A Terrifyingly Flawed Mental Health System
- Mental Illness Makes Me Feel Like An Illusion Of A Person
- The Nonsensical Mental Health System: Boxes, Time Limits, Generalisations and Stigma
- The Real SuperheroesÂ
- It’s All About the Context in Mental Health Crisis
- Awareness Without ProvisionÂ
- “Hands, put your empty hands in mine” – The Importance of Peer Support
