My name is Conner, I’m 25 years old and have experienced a life changing mental health issues. What does that mean? I’m not ashamed to say that I’m currently undergoing treatment for PTSD, Depression and Anxiety. I have been suffering for the past 2 months...
LIVING WITH PTSD, ASSOCIATED DEPRESSION & ANXIETY – A Mother’s Story “I don’t want to be here anymore, I don’t want to be alive” no mother is prepared to hear those words and I really hope I never hear them again. Every mother worries about their children, whatever age, my son has...
Lauren has spoken to my therapist again to get some advice, she has also called my doctors surgery to get me in to see someone straight away. This was the best decision Lauren has ever made, not that I knew it at the time. I had...
I’ve been back at work full time for the past 3 days, I’ve felt confident that I’m not having hallucinations so I’ve been driving. It’s my turn to drive to and from work today. I’ve been suffering with depression recently, I’m really down – not myself,...
It’s the World Cup final, as I’m sure you know, we’re not playing – but I’ve been using the World Cup as an excuse to drink. I’ve been drinking alcohol quite excessively for the past 3 weeks I think, I don’t know why, I want to forget...
I had already planned to see my Dad today; my mum had got in touch with him and he wanted to see me. He pops over, I tell him about what happened last night and we go and pick up my car, Lauren drives us all there...
The day of my 5th therapy session. We’re trying to get through this block where I can’t process anything. I can’t understand what’s going on. I’m disassociating from reality – the weirdest thing you’ll ever be told and you can’t really believe something like that happens,...
We’ve been busy sorting out the new place, I’m a sucker for DIY, love building things, fixing things and of course breaking things. So I've been putting TV’s on the wall, chopping up our amazing headboard, building a coat rail to go on the wall. Everything any...
I’ve had 3 therapy sessions by now, my feelings are coming back, but my god they’re like a punch in the face. I’ve been like a stone for so long, had no emotion or feeling towards anything. Now any emotion I feel is an extreme; extreme sadness,...
I slept a charm, but while I was sleeping I was suffering from the worst nightmares possible. I thought I was reliving what happened earlier in the month, but worse. Everything seems to get worse when it’s in your head, in your dreams. Not much more...