Mental Health Archives - StoryBlog inspire touch celebrate understand Tue, 28 Apr 2020 13:06:11 +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 Mental Health Archives - StoryBlog 32 32 150787812 George’s Story – “No, I’m not ok, and I’m going to talk about it!” https://storyblog.co.uk/georges-story-no-im-not-ok-and-im-going-to-talk-about-it/ https://storyblog.co.uk/georges-story-no-im-not-ok-and-im-going-to-talk-about-it/#comments Tue, 09 Oct 2018 12:37:24 +0000 https://storyblog.co.uk/?p=550 “I’d say it all started when I was playing rugby for Leeds Rhinos Under 16s and I got a serious match injury from a bad tackle. All of a sudden, you can’t do anything for months. Yeah, I think that’s when it started. You want to play rugby, you want to get out and about and you can’t. It drives you mad.” I’ve met up with 19-year old George today to talk about his diagnosis of depression earlier this year following a three-year struggle with anxiety and low self-esteem. “I felt blank, like I was in a hole. I had nowhere to go.” “When I

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]]> https://storyblog.co.uk/georges-story-no-im-not-ok-and-im-going-to-talk-about-it/feed/ 4 550 No Light at the End of the Tunnel: A Story of Mental Illness https://storyblog.co.uk/no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-a-story-of-mental-illness/ https://storyblog.co.uk/no-light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-a-story-of-mental-illness/#comments Tue, 02 Oct 2018 17:31:35 +0000 https://storyblog.co.uk/?p=526 It’s three in the morning and I just got home from the hospital.  I’m crying in the shower for at least the third time this week.  I’m tired, I have to get up for work in three hours, and I know I’m not going to be in any condition to give the presentation I’m supposed to give, but that’s not why I’m crying.  I’m crying because it’s just that heartbreaking to be the sister of someone so severely mentally ill that they can’t see their own affliction.  Because I see the waste of what his life could have been.  Because every day I’m reminded that

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