This morning I am adding an important post that I have shared on social media. I think the timing of this addition is very apt, since I...

Today is World Suicide Prevention Day and I really wanted to write something to coincide with it but I’m going to struggle because, once...

I’ve purposely backed off from writing over the last couple of weeks, while I withdraw from the antipsychotic medication ‘quetiapine’...

I’ve been wanting to write something over the last few days, but because I’m trying to be the ‘expert of myself’ and put my own mental...

I promised I would be back on the blog at the end of this week with an update, and because I always try to stick to my word – here I am...

This week, I was supposed to be continuing on the theme of spirituality & mental illness, but I have had to think again because my...

I have no idea what’s going on this week but having been sleeping really quite well over the last few months, I am now back to not...

Today’s post is especially important because it highlights a huge number of the problems and issues that us patients are coming up...

Because we have such vast knowledge in the field of medicine these days, it’s now impossible for one doctor to know everything about each...

The second post in this new series called ‘Voices of Courage’ comes from a blog reader who very kindly reached out to me and offered some...

Today's post is not going to be anything like my usual entries because I felt really ill last night and have decided to just add a...

There have been so many instances over the course of my illness when I’ve found myself struggling with my sleep. It always seems to be...

This week the U.K has seen rocketing temperatures and as usual it’s become the hottest (sorry) topic of the moment. As I mentioned last...

I’m feeling pretty exhausted this morning because writing about medications and the problems that they’ve caused me over the years, is...

Yesterday, I discussed some of the issues that I’ve come up against in my hideous twenty-year psychiatric nightmare. The truth is that...

The role of medications in psychiatry is a contentious issue and one which I have often felt hesitant about discussing. The reason for my...

Since starting this new blog in January, I have been concentrating on discussing some of the mental health articles and news items that...

It’s quite fitting that my last post was about ‘how journaling can help your mental health‘, because today I’m going to use it for...

I had some amazing feedback from a talk I did last Thursday for an equestrian charity called Stepney Bank Stables which I thought I would...

To finish off this Mental Health Week series, I am going to briefly discuss the side effects of combined treatment with high dose...