Psychology
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A day in the life of anxiety
Before I get into this I feel I should give a slight trigger warning. If you’re anything like me, reading about anxiety triggers can actually trigger your own anxiety. While I don’t discuss anything particularly bad in this post I do advise to proceed with caution if that does apply to you! Right, let’s get to it then… You open your eyelids to a haze of what now’s and what ifs. Your stomach sinking further and further into the mattress, clawing and clinging, yearning to just go back to sleep. Have you ever experienced something that intense and immovable? It’s what every day can be like when you have anxiety.…
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5 reasons you need to take a break for your wellbeing.
Take a break. It’s for your health. If you follow me on twitter you will have noticed that the last couple of weeks I have been feeling pretty rubbish. In fact, this last week I’ve not been able to blog at all, even on my days off, because I couldn’t get my brain in gear. I’ve been excessively tired, even more than usual, I’ve had a really bad cold, and my joints have been getting progressively more painful. On the plus side I have been sleeping better than I have in months! Firstly, my apologies for the lack of blog updates. I do usually pride myself on multiple posts a…
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My Analogy for Depression
It can be hard to fully get across what depression really feels like to live with – it’s hard enough that you have to live through it without dealing with being misunderstood. Having suffered with depression from a very young age, along with anxiety, I have managed to come up with my own ways of describing it to others in the hopes of being better understood. No one can see my depression, but it is there every day, even on the days I am smiling. No time to read now? Pin it for later! I originally posted this in 2013 on my personal blog, Il Se Interiore, and decided to…
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CBT: My secret to improving low mood.
CBT, which stands for Cognitive Behacvioural Therapy, is a very common and popular treatment for both depression and anxiety, and CFS/ME. I originally wrote this post when I had just started CBT, and this time it really did help. Read on to find out more about my experience. I’ve suffered with depression and anxiety all my life (or at least as long as I can remember), and it’s really made life hard. I struggle to get through even the simplest of days without being overwhelmed with worry and it has taken over pretty much every area of my life. I have recently started CBT in an effort to tackle my…
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January Round-Up
January has been such a crazy month, I barely know where to begin! Let’s start with the not so great bits. It has been a roller coaster month for me. I struggled to get myself back on track at work following the Christmas break and started to feel like I was drowning. My to-do list built up every day, but I didn’t have enough time to get everything done. My exhaustion hit a new peak and my body just gave up. Unfortunately this has resulted in me being signed off work, which I have been for the last three weeks. In all honesty I had no idea what I was…
