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Returning To Writing After a Hiatus
In August 2020 I made the painful, but necessary, decision to take a break from blogging. I usually love to write, and this labour of love was one of my biggest hobbies. But by this point it had become stressful, and tiring, and just another thing on my to-do list that I couldn’t keep up with. Did the pandemic have an impact? It’s hard to say. All I know is that I was spending every day preoccupied with page views and how to increase them, so much so that it sucked the joy out of writing completely. It was supposed to be a short break, a month or two tops,…
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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…
