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Tis the season to feel whatever you need to feel regardless of social pressures

Let’s talk about Christmas. You know the one: comes once a year, celebrated by many, whether it be for religious, cultural or generally festive reasons. Happening next week, in fact. As a kid, Christmas is pretty much the best day of the year, and as you grow up it may become special for reasons other than Father Christmas squeezing himself down your chimney, such as time to spend with family,…

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#alcohol #christmas #consumerism #family #festive #food #holiday #holidays #jolly #mental health #mental illness #merry #money #pressures #season #society #tis the season

I am not okay, and that is okay

I have been desperate to start blogging more frequently as I really enjoy the act of writing and have been told I do a good job of it, which is always nice to hear. However, through a series of events and decisions I have slowly managed to spiral myself into quite an unhappy place over the past few weeks, and as such have felt as though I’m not in a position to be giving people advice and…

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#anxiety #etc #instagram #kim kardashian #mental health #mental illness #rant #social anxiety #social media #society #stigma

Taking time for yourself is okay (and actually very important)

I graduated from university this summer (pause for applause), and since then I have been – admittedly halfheartedly – job hunting. Truth be told, I am not in a very aspirational point in my life, despite society telling me that, as a new grad, I need to jump on the career ladder and earn money and become “successful”. Don’t get me wrong, I would like a job, and there is only so long a gal can…

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#anxiety #depression #job #mental health #self-care #stress #time #university

The internal struggle of socialising.

This week I had the absolute joy of going back to Cardiff to visit the city that not only granted me a degree but gave me some of the most wonderful friends a gal could ask for. Unfortunately my anxiety insisted on accompanying me. Although my anxiety isn’t exclusive to social situations but in fact a much grander General Anxiety Disorder (woop woop), it is certainly heightened when human…

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#anxiety #awareness #mental health #mental illness #social anxiety #socialising #world mental health day

University and mental health

In one way or another, university is a scary time for everyone. You’re most likely moving to a whole new place, saying goodbye to the security of your family and friends for the first time and instead surrounding yourself with strangers. That makes it sound unpleasant, I know. In truth, university will probably be the best thing that has ever happened – you have the freedom to be independent,…

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#anxiety #depression #mental health #panic attacks #student #uni #university

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