Today I reached the end of my 6 week respite from work. The annual summer term break, when all the UK schools shut down for 6 weeks to give the teachers a well needed break and to give the students a chance to lay in bed till 3pm, eat pizza and play on the ps4…
As you are probably now aware, if you’ve read my blog for a while, I have been quite open about the depression and anxiety I sometimes suffer with. I feel it’s important to break down the barriers to this debilitating condition, because that’s what it is, by talking more about it. There needs to be more…
Do you think those words are harsh? I was in a discussion with a friend a while back who was quite adamant about this proposal and at the time I thought it seemed a very hard thing to achieve and a very abrupt thing to say. And then, after much thought, I came to the…
Somebody asked me the other day what it’s like to live with anxiety. The fortunate ones among us who have never experienced this debilitating condition are baffled by the word anxiety and the meaning of it. It is also difficult to explain the condition to someone that’s never been affected by it. The definition in…
By now readers you are aware that I have an issue with anxiety and the occasional panic attacks, which sometimes come out of the blue and knock me for 6! I’ve been having a few worries of late which has been playing on my mind, a good friend has an illness that’s on-going, and…
I was invited out to a work party not too long back, and I had to decline the invitation. Not for any other reason, apart from the fact that I have social anxiety and the fear of being in a room with lots of people filled me with dread. Social phobia is a condition that…
