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Welcome to MENTAL
A collection of stories ON mental health experiences
Mental
STORIES ARCHIVE
2018
Mar 1, 2018
“Everything was frantic – this was my lead up to a first episode psychosis.”
Mar 2, 2018
“Postpartum psychosis made me feel vulnerable and forced me to experience feeling of extreme discomfort, intense pain, sadness, and grief.”
Mar 3, 2018
“Going into prison changed me. It broke barriers mentally that were holding back so many issues, and it all seeped out at once.”
Mar 4, 2018
“The silent anxiety attacks, hidden by smiles, confidence and perfectionist ways make every day feel like living a lie."
Mar 5, 2018
“No matter what we encounter we always seem to bounce back, get through and keep going.”
Mar 6, 2018
“I remember feeling like all the bones in my body had finally broken.”
Mar 7, 2018
“Planning, planning, endlessly planning how you're going to change.”
Mar 8, 2018
“What I feel our current culture lacks are the voices of reason to penetrate those emotions.”
Mar 9, 2018
“It felt like I had woken up one day and just suddenly hated everything.”
Mar 10, 2018
“I remind myself every day of how lucky I am to have a rhythm in my heart and a pair of lungs that fill with air."
Mar 11, 2018
“Brother didn’t like me when we were growing up.”
Mar 12, 2018
“Your life will be different because every day people are talking more about mental health."
Apr 3, 2018
“It was not the negative I sought, it was the positive; how to fix it all.”
Apr 3, 2018
“Either way, your experience is valid.”
Apr 3, 2018
“You are loved.”
Apr 3, 2018
“I want silence, peace and a life”
Apr 3, 2018
“I am the dog running running as fast as I can, depression snapping at my tail.”
Apr 3, 2018
“The whole time I was hearing voices but told no-one.”
Apr 3, 2018
“The greatest love you'll ever have is your own.”
Apr 3, 2018
“Don’t worry everything’s fine.”
Apr 3, 2018
“My brain is wired to automatic.”
Apr 10, 2018
“Nature’s happiness helps the pain to ease.”
Apr 18, 2018
"I call it a dark horse."
Apr 19, 2018
“I got out of bed today."
Apr 19, 2018
“It is a harrowing, debilitating, and lifelong illness but it is an illness where there is always hope.”
Apr 19, 2018
“Everyone wants to fix me with a quick solution…”
Apr 19, 2018
“Mental health and wellbeing is multidimensional and is reflected by a healthy society, community, whānau, community, spirit, body, heart and environment.”
Apr 19, 2018
“Have you ever experienced that deep, tight feeling of not being able to breathe?”
Apr 25, 2018
“It taught me a form of empathy I am so proud to have now, and it teaches me more every day.
Apr 25, 2018
“Managing to save my ten sick days a year is an annual challenge.”
Apr 25, 2018
“What had started as a simple commitment to weight loss had become an interminable battle with my anxious thoughts, perfectionism, and insecurity.”
Apr 25, 2018
“Psychiatrists will tend to err on the side of prescribing too much rather than too little, at least in my experience.”
Apr 25, 2018
“People experiencing psychosis don't need your fear, we need your compassion and understanding, your patience, your friendship.”
Apr 25, 2018
“My advice to those suffering: be open, in some way, whether it be through talking or touching someone/something, feeling fresh air or sun, or splash water on your face….”
Apr 25, 2018
“I was crafty with my trouble making.”
May 2, 2018
“Sleep became something of a rarity. I was too scared to let it take me.”
May 2, 2018
“There is strength in vulnerability.”
May 2, 2018
“I have dreams and ambitions again that I feel and know I can achieve. And I see a future after mental illness, because like most illnesses, I can and will recover.”
May 2, 2018
“My work is amazing at supporting me during these bad times and my clients actually help put a smile on my face.”
May 2, 2018
“To this day, being with horses is the one thing that can allow my brain to rest and simply focus on what I am doing in the moment.”
May 2, 2018
“I would like to give a massive pat on the back to everyone who suffers with any type of mental illness. You are so strong, and please be gentle with yourself.”
May 9, 2018
“I’m 51-year-old NZ male and my story starts at an early age of 12 years old.”
May 9, 2018
“No, you are not crazy! Proudly different but not crazy!”
May 9, 2018
“Does the panic come first, or the physical symptoms followed by the panic?”
May 9, 2018
“Empathy, intuition with a clear head, mindfulness, and appropriate medical treatment, all of a sudden became a massive part of my life.”
May 9, 2018
“Depression doesn't need a reason and it doesn't mean you aren't aware of how great your life already is.”
May 9, 2018
“Right now I know I will always get better because today I am feeling good. Tomorrow could be different.”
May 16, 2018
“I didn’t understand why I felt so much pain.”
May 16, 2018
“I want to be a part of the solution in whatever way I can.”
May 16, 2018
“I can be happy one minute and then the next I’m just overthinking…”
May 16, 2018
“I take responsibility for my life.”
May 16, 2018
“What singing does do is provide relief from the dark cloud or the black dog, that constant companion that depression is.”
May 16, 2018
“I look back on my life now and recognise that actually my mental illness and emotional deregulation started in my teens.”
May 23, 2018
“But I also know that it’s not forever. Dark states of the mind don't last.”
May 23, 2018
“Writing my mental health story is an accomplishment I never thought I would achieve.”
May 23, 2018
“I have now been diagnosed with severe PTSD, anxiety and depression.”
May 23, 2018
“There is no right or wrong to a mental health journey. There is only your own journey.”
May 23, 2018
“My sleep has improved, medication is down, self-esteem and self-belief is on the up.”