Follow me using RSS
Facebook
Categories
-
-
Recently on no more wriggling…
- Talking crime – on why we love a good murder mystery….
- Let’s focus on the words: Peter, Tony, and a Portrait of Keats
- Why Mrs T should have left the room quietly, closing the door behind her….
- ‘In relation to’ what? On ‘Talking Books’ and chewing words….
- ‘Talking Books’…On trying to become Somerset’s answer to Mariella Frostrup
Tags
anxiety autumn blogging Books breast cancer childhood Christmas depression family Family History Food gallery health history holidays John Keats Keats Kids Lake District London love memory mental health Mood motherhood Music NaNoWriMo nostalgia parenting personality photography Photos Poetry politics procrastination Rain reading relationships research sisters Suffolk Teens Victorian women's issues writing
Tag Archives: depression
Doing Good? – Mental Health Awareness Week 2012
Today marks the beginning of Mental Health Awareness Week 2012. Perhaps you are suffering from ‘Awareness Week’ fatigue? Haven’t we had Depression Awareness week already? It’s Dementia Awareness Week too – isn’t that just another sort of mental illness? Perhaps … Continue reading
Dandelions & Bad Hair Days – how mental health & motherhood woke up the writer in me
In a few months time a book will be published; an anthology of prose and poetry on the experience of mental health issues. It will have my name on the cover and I will have written some of the pieces the book includes. … Continue reading
Posted in Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, Mental health, Parenting, Random musings on family life, love the universe and everything
Tagged anxiety, blogging, childhood, Dandelions and Bad Hair Days, depression, family, Kids, mental health charities, mental health issues, mental-health, parenting
16 Comments
S.I.S.N.M – the wonderful Nic Elgey on why you need suffer in silence no more…
Editor’s note: Today is the first anniversary of the creation of a very special group founded by a special woman. I first became aware of Suffer in Silence No More via a friend on Facebook who knew about my guest … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health
Tagged anxiety, childhood, depression, mental health, Mood, Nic Elgey, S.I.S.N.M, Suffer In Silence No More
1 Comment
‘Underneath the Lemon Tree’ – The Guardian’s Mark Rice-Oxley gets direct about depression….
March the 15th saw the publication of a new memoir – ‘Underneath the Lemon Tree’ by Mark Rice-Oxley, an assistant news editor on the foreign desk of The Guardian newspaper. It is an important book. Seeming to ‘have it all’ … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health, Writing
Tagged anxiety, Books, depression, family, interview, Mark Rice-Oxley, mental health, Mood, personality, Underneath the Lemon Tree
3 Comments
Telling ‘Sarah’s Story’ – finding truth in family history
It is some time since I have written on the history of my family, or on history in any sense really. I am deep into the process of finalising a manuscript that will be published in the next few months – … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, History, London, Mental health
Tagged Banstead Mental Hospital, depression, family, Family History, history, London, lunatic asylum, mental health, mental-health
8 Comments
One year on: a new life – Mark’s story
Editor’s note: The monthly mental health guest post on No wriggling for March has been written by Mark K. Social networks provide great support to those with mental health issues and it is via twitter that I ‘met’ Mark. Writing has long been … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health, Writing
Tagged anxiety, Bipolar Disorder, depression, health, mental health, mental health issues, Mood, OCD, personality, relationships
2 Comments
‘Mood Food’ or Marian Keyes? ‘Saved by Cake’ & managing depression with diet
‘To be perfectly blunt about it, my choice sometimes is: I can kill myself or I can make a dozen cupcakes. Right so, I’ll do the cupcakes and I can kill myself tomorrow.’ So says Marian Keyes in the introduction … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health, Writing
Tagged anxiety, baking, Books, cakes, cupcakes, depression, Food, Marian Keyes, mental health, Mood
3 Comments
Autophobia or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love my Ego
Editor’s note: As we go into the second year of mental health guest posts here on No wriggling I am grateful for a contribution from the other side of the world. Deb is well-known in the genealogy community and has a great … Continue reading
Posted in Family History, Mental health
Tagged anxiety, childhood, depression, family, Family History, history, memory, mental health, Mood, parenting, personality, relationships, women's issues
2 Comments
On the darker side of the sparkle
As the build up to Christmas and the New Year reaches a climax it is for many quite easy to buy into the old maxim ‘ ’tis the season to be jolly’. From the early December Christmas party at work … Continue reading
Posted in Mental health
Tagged anxiety, Christmas, depression, family, mental health, Mood, relationships
13 Comments
Learning to love the rain again – Nettie’s story
Editor’s note: After a short break, we start the second year of monthly mental health guest posts. For November I have secured a moving description of living with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder by Nettie Edwards, a hugely talented digital artist … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Mental health, Photography, Writing
Tagged Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, ACT, anxiety, childhood, depression, IPhoneography, memory, mental health, mindfulness, photography, Photos, Post traumatic stress, PTSD, relationships
5 Comments
