Tag: Mental Health Awareness Week

• I had an SMI and was completely unaware

  

  Mental illness can creep up on you, mine did….

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  May 20, 2023

  Lived experience

  delusions, depression, Mental Health Awareness Week, symptoms

• Taking part in bipolar research

  

  In pre-Internet times, when first diagnosed, I read avidly about bipolar and my main source was Pendulum, the quarterly magazine of the Manic Depressive Fellowship (now Bipolar UK), which featured: Research comes in different guises and covers a range of hypotheses – medication, heredity, life, psychology and practical daily life – all things that can…

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  February 24, 2023

  Science & technology

  debt, media, Mental Health Awareness Week, mental health charities, research, self-management

• The agony and ecstasy of psychosis

  

  Content warning: some descriptions of psychotic delusions may distress 9th May 2022 sees the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK and my contribution is following up on a previous post about my experience of psychosis because I think it is a topic, the detail of which is not widely written about, so…

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  May 9, 2022

  Lived experience

  delusions, literature, mania, Mental Health Awareness Week, mental health charities, psychosis