Homesick

For a place and for a time. Maybe it’s because tomorrow I have my first exam since my GCSEs. And I feel clueless and like I’m fifteen again. [Only that time, I was too ill for school, I was right to be nervous and afraid of my exams.  I came back that day to quietness.  [...]

Body dysmorphic disorder- the only ex I really hate

I received an email a few days ago asking me why I never mention body dysmorphia these days. (This reader also has body dysmorphia and wrote that she liked this blog because there’s not a lot out there about it).  And I realised I did rather abruptly stop talking about it. Well!  There’s a few [...]

Depression?

“Oh dear”, I thought.  ”I spent three days asleep.  I keep bursting into tears for no reason.  Every time Robert opens his mouth, every time I open my inbox, every time I pick up the phone, read a sentence, watch an advert, I think they’re criticising me.  And why wouldn’t they?  I’m so crap.  I’m [...]

Rethink podcast: mental health and social networking

A while ago I was involved in a podcast with Rethink on the topic of social networking. I wrote a bit about it here.  All the swearing has been edited out so now you can listen to it!  Links below. If you are still feeling charitable, please go to the podcast on the iTunes store [...]

Life is unfair, kill yourself or get over it

Privated last post, I think I have enough comments now.  Few months to decide.  Realistically, I feel I’m going to have to push ahead with this year.  A large part of me just really wants to get started, I spend so much time reading student nurse forums and feeling jealous.  My non-realistic side is saying, [...]

Whoops, I’m fine!

I made an old post (October 2008, so very old) about an overdose public because somebody emailed me remembering that they’d read it and wanted to again.  For some reason, it always publicises on Twitter or emails people when I change the post status.   Because of this, it looks like a recent post if [...]

Comic Relief and there is a duck outside my flat

Edit: read my previous post, people are saying interesting things! Why is there currently a duck outside my flat?  It’s been there a while.  It scared the bollocks out of me when I heard it quack.  I like my nature where I can find it, at a safe distance in parks, not on an estate [...]

When I Was Racist/Studying

I had forgotten other people read national newspapers. When I wrote the Observer bit, I didn’t think about other people reading it. I realised yesterday on the way back from class that there was a good chance my tutors and some of my classmates may have seen it. Nobody (save for one friend) at my [...]

Observer article on confessional blogging

Hello!  If you want to read the article, it’s here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/mar/13/blogging-fine-art-of-confessional?INTCMP=SRCH It’s quite an interesting article about the roots and rise of confessional blogging.  Why do we share so much, and what are the pitfalls of using the internet like a box in a church?  In the print version, I was slightly amused that the [...]

Show Me Something Saturday

I’ve updated my other blog with this post, go there and show me something! http://www.seaneenmolloy.co.uk/?p=173 (Fixed) PS: Don’t use the mentallyinteresting.org.uk link to get here anymore, it’s gone!

I think I might be in the Observer magazine on Sunday

(Edit; Not writing about world events right now as it would sound trite, but I hope Japanese readers out there are okay). I think, anyway.  I’m not entirely sure but I wrote about confessional blogging for them, and to my knowledge it’s being published on Sunday.  So if you want to read it, there you [...]

Britain’s Secret Slaves

Nothing to do with mental health, but you should all watch this on 4oD. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/series-69/episode-1 From the website: Over 15,000 domestic workers leave their families to come to Britain every year. Charities claim that many are not only badly treated but that they are living as slaves.

I didn’t get into King’s

Feel completely devastated. Probably because I sucked so much at interview. Red wine and crying for tonight. I wish I didn’t live here right now, that I hadn’t moved here in the hope I’d be going there; I have to pass King’s College Hospital and the Maudsley all the time. I also wish I had [...]