It is the day after the annual World Eating Disorders Action Day, and I am choosing to post after the event for a reason: we cannot let the central messaging of this day be restricted only to Friday 2nd June 2023. As with the myriad of other awareness days, we typically see the same record…
Tag: mental illness
Are You OK?
800,000. Forty Seconds. 135. 25 I will explain. 800,000 is the approximate number of deaths each year from suicide. This is the equivalent of one death from suicide every 40 seconds. For every death from suicide, an estimated 135 people are impacted, and suffer grief. For every one death from suicide, there are 25 suicide…
How Are You? Really, How Are You? – WMHD 2019
“Fine Thanks“ “Good, how are you?” It is one of the most regularly used, go-to greetings, met by responses such as the two above. ‘How are you?’ has become synonymous with the likes of ‘Hello’, or more accurately, ‘I don’t really want to get into a deep conversation but am asking as a force of…
Please Do Not Comment On Appearance
When a compliment can do more harm than good, and why appearance does not determine disorder. People love the way I look in that series, but I was very ill. The reward for that illness was the part. And therein lies the perpetuation of the whole sorry situation Actor Christopher Eccleston in ‘I Love The…
How Is University Teaching About Eating Disorders?
We are just over half-way through eating disorders awareness week. Having been following many instagram accounts that discuss eating disorders and related issues, I am incredibly happy to see much more awareness of, what I personally believe, to be the key areas that need greater recognition (e.g. Health at Every Size approaches, the dangers of…
“Suicide is Not a Hashtag”
“Suicide is not a hashtag. It is an unimaginable, devastating tragedy.” These are the words spoken by suicide prevention charity, Papyrus head, Ged Flynn. I had not planned on writing a blog post on the topic of suicide. However, having spent the past week cramming for a developmental psychopathology exam – of which depression, bipolar…
World Mental Health Day 2018
Since 1992, 10th October has been observed as being a day for promoting greater education and awareness of mental health globally, and tackling the stigma that surrounds this important issue. With each year being given a particular theme, such as ‘living with schizophrenia‘ (2014) and ‘mental health in the workplace‘ (2017), this year is looking…
Repost: A Day In the Life- Eating Disorder Clinic
Tomorrow is Wednesday 10th October 2018 and it marks World Mental Health Day, and what better time to get back to (attempting) some regular blogging. I’m going to be a little bit of a cop out here and actually re-post a blog I wrote on my old site, documenting a typical day in an eating…
Mental Health on Screen
Mental health awareness week is drawing to a close, and it just so happens to coincide with the Netflix release of ’13 Reasons Why – Season 2′. The first season, which was broadcast in March 2017 quickly became the subject of conversation, with critics both slating and supporting the shows plot, content, and its potential…
Are You Stressed? MHAW 2018
May 14th – 20th marks Mental Health Awareness Week, and this year the focus is on Stress. Stress, as defined by Oxford Dictionaries: (Noun) – A state of mental or emotional strain or tension resulting from adverse or demanding circumstances. (Biology) – Physiological disturbance or damage caused to an organism by adverse circumstances. Have you…
Hope and Awareness 