Depression Archives - StoryBlog inspire touch celebrate understand Sun, 16 Feb 2020 15:29:47 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 https://storyblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/cropped-StoryBlog-1-4-32x32.jpg Depression Archives - StoryBlog 32 32 150787812 Caroline Flack: Use this as a wake up call! https://storyblog.co.uk/caroline-flack-use-this-as-a-wake-up-call/ https://storyblog.co.uk/caroline-flack-use-this-as-a-wake-up-call/#comments Sun, 16 Feb 2020 13:00:39 +0000 http://storyblog.co.uk/?p=812 After hearing about Caroline Flack’s death yesterday and many other cases of people suffering from mental health, it infuriates me a lot when people kick others when they’re down or are not supportive when times are tough for them. This affects me deeply, especially when people who I don’t know are going through this, and they feel they have no one to talk to. I wish I could stretch my arm out and help them find the light at the other side of the tunnel.  I know what it feels like to be kicked when I’m down – I’ve had that many times due to

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]]> https://storyblog.co.uk/caroline-flack-use-this-as-a-wake-up-call/feed/ 3 812 I Had Everything I Thought I Wanted, and it Drove Me to the Ground https://storyblog.co.uk/i-had-everything-i-thought-i-wanted-and-it-drove-me-to-the-ground/ https://storyblog.co.uk/i-had-everything-i-thought-i-wanted-and-it-drove-me-to-the-ground/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2018 17:00:14 +0000 https://storyblog.co.uk/?p=617 “Just do it.” The words bounced through my head like lighting, too quick to catch and stop in their tracks, each repetition a hot jab into my brain. “You’ve done this before. So… just do it.” It didn’t make any sense. “For the first time in my life, I couldn’t make it work.” Here I was, sitting in front of a dual screen work desktop, staring at my latest assignment. For the first time in my life, I couldn’t make it work. My brain just couldn’t figure out how to complete the task – even if I had done it a thousand times before. It

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