Attitudes towards mental health have come a long way in recent years. Not so long ago, it was almost taboo to talk about things like anxiety, depression, and emotional distress, but in the modern era, these subjects are surfacing more and more often, with countless people finally feeling safe and comfortable in talking about the…
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The Biggest Causes Of Stress In Men
Read moreStress is an experience that is far from exclusive to men, by any respect. However, the societal pressures of being a man are different from the pressures of being a woman and, as such, can affect what, exactly, causes stress. Here, we’re going to look at some of the most common causes of stress, as…
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Is Social Media Contributing To Teenagers Detaching Themselves From Real Life?
Read moreIn my new series of posts I will be looking at how the world we live in now will impact upon our children. One of the fastest moving parts of our everyday lives is technology, in particular social media. We now have a generation of teenagers that do not know life without the internet or…
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[ad] Getting Help With Your Mental And Physical Health
Read moreIn todays world with all of its pressures and how fast the world moves, people in general are under undue stress and the strains on everyday life can be become all very hard to deal with. Many of us have at different times during our lives suffered from many different issues with our mental health…
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[AD] How Gardening Can Help Your Mental Health
Read moreRegular readers of my blog will know that I have had a long standing issue with my mental health. In particular I’ve suffered from some severe bouts of depression throughout my life. It has always been difficult to find ways to lift my mood and simply just be able to cope with life on a…
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Lets Talk About My Mental Health But It’s So Difficult
Read moreIt was my birthday last Friday and it made me reflect upon my life and the last year. It is also just over two years ago that I had a stroke, and at that time it put so much in perspective of what’s important in life. What I didn’t realise is that over the last…
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Sats Exams and Stress: Mental Health Awareness Week
Read moreThe Sats are in full swing in our seven year twin girls school at the moment, but if you ask them you wouldn’t be any the wiser that they were doing any sort of exam. We asked the question, as you do on the school pick-up, what did you do at school today? During the…
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Being Honest With Yourself Leads To Loving Yourself
Read moreDuring my life I have suffered from depression many times. Sometimes it’s lasted for years. My depression and mental health issues are something that I have learnt to deal with, sometimes successfully, other times not so successfully. Looking back at my life I have come to the conclusion that a lot of mental health problems…
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Men Dads Depression PND And Suicide
Read moreThe single biggest killer of men under the age of 45 in the UK is suicide. That is something that has to be a fundamental flaw in our society. In truth I actually wonder how little we have moved forward in enabling men to talk about problems they may be having in their lives. It’s…
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Parenting Teenagers It’s Tough At Times
Read moreI have been blessed to have five children and there is no doubt about it, I feel privileged that in my lifetime I have become a dad five times. However, getting it right as a dad is incredibly difficult. I think I have bitten my tongue more times than I care to mention and I…
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Keeping On Top Of Your Mental Health Issues With Therapy
Read moreIf you have suffered from mental health issues for most of your life, which is something I have had to deal with throughout my life, then you may find that keeping your mind healthy is an ongoing situation that quite honestly never goes away. That’s why finding a way forward to lead a positive life…
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My Mental Health: The Stigma Of Mental Health Needs Eradicating For Our Young Peopled
Read moreFirst of all I would like thank Susie over at So Happy In Town. She has inspired this post with her amazing campaign. #itsoktofeelshit. The stigma surrounding mental health has certainly been broken down a lot since I was first diagnosed with depression in my teenage years. Back in those days I was quite simply…
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Living In A Bursted Bubble
Read moreOver the last four years of blogging I have written on many occasions about my life and some of the very difficult experiences that I have encountered. This has been hard to deal with recently, especially as I have got a little older and I would like to say wiser, but sadly that’s probably not…
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The Importance Of World Mental Health Day October 10th 2018
Read moreBeing a man that grew up in a society that was basically conditioned and taught that men are strong and must at all costs never show weakness or become emotional, meant that it was almost impossible for me to open up about suffering from depression in my twenties. The stigma that surrounded men and depression…
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Getting Motivated When You Are Suffering From Depression
Read moreI have written on many occasions about how I have suffered from depression during my life. Although I now feel good about myself, it doesn’t mean that I am not very aware that depression can take control of your life without warning. If you have never suffered from depression I guess it can be very…
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Depression And When To Seek Out A Psychiatrist
Read moreSince my teenage years I have suffered from depression. There have, over the years been good times, but they have been intermingled with bouts of very severe depression that have lasted at times for years. Although you have some good times throughout your life, depression is not something that ever leaves you. It will lurk…
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Guest Post From Lewis Brown Who Writes Adventure Brown
Read moreFirst up in my guest posts this week is Lewis who writes the brilliant Adventure Brown Blog. Lewis is easily one of my favourite dad bloggers. This post is brutally honest about how he has suffered from depression, and in particular when he found out his partner was pregnant with their first child. It’s a…
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How Talking To Someone Helped Me Conquer Depression Finding The Right Therapist
Read moreLast week I wrote a post about the mental health issues I have had in my life for the unofficial There For Him campaign and the campaign for raising mental health issues during mental health awareness week. All this got me to thinking about the time when I was most likely at my lowest point…
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Unlocking The Compartments in my Mind: Me Depression And Being A Dad And A Man
Read moreI would like to start out by saying that I was inspired by a poem/post written by my friend, Giles, from You The Daddy, to write this post and raise awareness around men and depression. With the brilliant hashtag #thereforhim, which is an unofficial campaign for a paternal mental health week to raise awareness of…
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Black Clouds Are Filling My Mind
Read moreAfter the events of the last week in relation to my health, and the fact that at one point last Thursday, the severity of my situation really came home to me. Sometimes what happens in life can leave you fragile and vulnerable, and last week has consequently made my mood plummet to a very low…
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Can You Inherit Depression, Alcoholism?
Read moreWhen I was a teenager from about the age of 15 most likely into my late twenties I was angry. I didn’t like my life. I didn’t like the cards that life had dealt me. I had the biggest chip you could imagine on not one shoulder, but both of them. Looking back, it’s rather…
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