My personal experience of living with social and generalised anxiety disorders, seasonal affective disorder, depression, fibromyalgia, joint hypermobility and undiagnosed complex PTSD, and my experience with counselling, therapies and self-help. Challenging the stigma and discrimination around mental illness through sharing of my lived experience. Proud to endorse the Mental Health Media Charter – further info here https://www.natashadevon.com/the-mental-health-media-charter
So it's been a while since I last posted. Remember in around November when I embarked on solo travel abroad for the first time, and it pretty much all ended in tears? Or rather an anxiety induced meltdown caused by a combination of getting used to new medication, being in a completely different country , … Continue reading Hannover
I'm starting to write this on a transpennine express train from Liverpool to York. Technically I'm still supposed to be in Budapest. From my last post you could probably tell that all was not really ok. In fact it did reach the point where the anxiety became so overwhelming that I felt I had to … Continue reading Coming home.
Isn't it nice to go on holiday with someone? Well it is if that someone isn't your own thoughts. I'm currently on holiday flying solo in Budapest and good old anxiety is squeezing it's hand on my shoulder. It's worse because I'm alone in another country that I don't know, a language that I don't … Continue reading On holiday with anxiety.
Anxiety and Me 