mental-health
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When psychology first started up, it’s main tool was introspection – the examination of one’s own mind. This has somewhat fallen by the wayside, not being scientific enough, I suppose. How can you understand the mind of another if you don’t understand your own? I wonder if the real reason we stopped was that it…
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It’s the beginning of exam season in the UK. Already my kids have split into 2 camps, the eldest being responsible and revising and the youngest has taken the attitude of “oh well”. I wish they’d brush off on each other a little bit, Spawn number 1 is too serious and could actually do with…
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I’m a rather introverted person. I like my own company and quiet time. I find most people to be draining, even those I love but I do get lonely sometimes. I struggle to maintain friendships when most of the social obligations for women are way outside of my abilities and too often my friendships with…
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I don’t particularly like living with regrets. I don’t suppose anyone does. My biggest regret though has to be how much time I’ve lost to people who didn’t deserve it. I don’t know if the Autism was part of it, but I was quite a late bloomer when it came to attraction and dating. I…
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Every woman has heard how awful hot flushes are, but no one ever told me that my words would just up and disappear. You’ll go to say something and even the most common innocuous words will just be gone from your mind. It started with just forgetting the word itself but synonymous words were OK,…
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If you have any sort of disorder or difference in ability these words will probably strike fear into your heart. In the case of Mental Health and Neurodivergence this seems to mean that someone has been to a one hour lecture that pointed out that we (Autistics, depressed, differently able people) exist. It might point…
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I am most definitely Not a child of the Internet age, I missed out by a couple of years. Our school had computers, and we were required to do an ICT course but that mainly centred on using Word, Excel and the Like. We weren’t taught anything about the Internet ( I could be blanking…
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Sometimes I think there must be one attached to my Forehead. Some sign saying Idiot or Please Kick Me. I don’t quite know how else to explain my bad luck. There’s still a lot of Stigma and discrimination around Mental Health. I once got told by the lady working in a Charity shop that all…
Hanging by a thread 