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Are relationships with others the root cause of every mental illness?
I have now almost fulfilled my promise of writing on this new blog for a whole year. I decided to commit to this back in January when I...

Tom Robinson
Dec 8, 20214 min read
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Dealing with crappy sleep: the annoyance returns!
I was going to write a detailed post this morning including some interesting take-out points from the Mental Wealth Mastery Summit from...

Tom Robinson
Nov 29, 20214 min read
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NHS wasting up to £568M a year on pointless pills: please take caution but be warned of withdrawals!
I wanted to add this post this morning since it covers a topic which I have been trying to highlight over recent weeks; namely, the...

Tom Robinson
Oct 20, 20212 min read
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Revisiting past trauma: cathartic? Or avoidable & unnecessary torment?!
I haven't written much this week as I've been devoting my efforts towards other things such as: NLP study, French, writing other...

Tom Robinson
Oct 7, 20214 min read
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'Self first, duty second!' Not the other way round! Self care is key for anyone with mental illness!
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...

Tom Robinson
Sep 14, 20212 min read
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World Suicide Prevention Day 2021: trigger warning - The reality of mental healthcare in the U.K!
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...

Tom Robinson
Sep 10, 20217 min read
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Mental health & the importance of preserving a peaceful environment: can we stop trashing it please!
I’ve purposely backed off from writing over the last couple of weeks, while I withdraw from the antipsychotic medication ‘quetiapine’...

Tom Robinson
Sep 3, 20219 min read
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Mental ‘health’ isn’t the problem! Mental illness IS! A dose of reality for anyone that's wondering!
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...

Tom Robinson
Aug 31, 202111 min read
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Quetiapine withdrawal continues: there is a light at the end of the tunnel, but I need way more R&R!
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...

Tom Robinson
Aug 27, 202110 min read
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Taking a break and prioritising my own mental health: time for a holiday and some serious R&R!
This week, I was supposed to be continuing on the theme of spirituality & mental illness, but I have had to think again because my...

Tom Robinson
Aug 16, 20218 min read
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The Wheel of Awakening: spiritual awakening, madness, mental illness? - Clockwise or anticlockwise?!
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...

Tom Robinson
Aug 13, 20216 min read
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Voices of Courage: bipolar warrior Shaun Everett courageously shares his incredibly powerful story
Today’s post is especially important because it highlights a huge number of the problems and issues that us patients are coming up...

Tom Robinson
Aug 6, 20219 min read
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Nutrition and the gut-brain axis: yet another aspect of psychiatry that’s being neglected!
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...

Tom Robinson
Aug 4, 20214 min read
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Voices of Courage: Olanzapine side effects & withdrawals sharing experiences for the sake of others!
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...

Tom Robinson
Jul 28, 20215 min read
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Improved sleep and a new direction, but a few other worries to contend with as usual!
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...

Tom Robinson
Jul 27, 20214 min read
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Book review: The Insomnia Diaries – How I learned to sleep again by Miranda Levy
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...

Tom Robinson
Jul 26, 20218 min read
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Sleeping in hot weather: a few tips and tricks to beat the heat!
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...

Tom Robinson
Jul 22, 20214 min read
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Quetiapine: the ‘zombifying’ drug that’s a nightmare to withdraw from!
I’m feeling pretty exhausted this morning because writing about medications and the problems that they’ve caused me over the years, is...

Tom Robinson
Jul 14, 20215 min read
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Psychiatric medications part 2: discussing some of the side effects and withdrawal problems
Yesterday, I discussed some of the issues that I’ve come up against in my hideous twenty-year psychiatric nightmare. The truth is that...

Tom Robinson
Jul 13, 20215 min read
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Psychiatric medications part 1: informed consent and the importance of the patient-led approach
The role of medications in psychiatry is a contentious issue and one which I have often felt hesitant about discussing. The reason for my...

Tom Robinson
Jul 12, 20215 min read
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