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The mental health charity Rethink, are asking if mental health illnesses are ever a gift on their twitter feed and on their facebook page.

I am diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. This is in no way a gift.

Let me try and explain a little ( Read more... )

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my brain, my poor brain
my brain, my poor brain

drinking myself to sleep again
night nurse pills to keep me sane
drinking myself to sleep again
insomnia

- Insomnia by Feeder

I used to sing this chorus a lot, it became my theme tune of sorts. I was an ( Read more... )

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There hasn’t been many words here of late, my mental health has taken something of dip, to the point some mornings I feel like I’m lying on the floor being kicked by some invisible manifestation of depression.

So I’ve stuck to pictures for now, I hope ( Read more... )

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The strangest things keep me awake at night sometimes.

The night before last, I was thinking about what if the smallest things were different. What if you changed just one letter of certain things, like what if it was .com, but .vom. Just one letter ( Read more... )

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You know what I hate. Doctors. I hate them. Okay not all of them. Some of them. Lots of them.

But the doctors that I hate the most are the ones that ask me questions, listen to my answers, then completely ignore everything I say. Yes, please, ignore my ( Read more... )

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I’m starting to resign myself to the fact that I’m always going to have trouble sleeping. Nothing works. okay, not nothing. One thing works. Sleeping tablets. But even my usual dose of Zopiclone isn’t working any more, and I only resort to sleeping ( Read more... )