Dear Body, I’m sorry that I still don’t love you. I’m sorry that sometimes I can’t bear to look at you. As summer approaches, and everyone shows more skin, it makes me wonder what everyone […]
The Depression Diaries: The secrets of self-harm
If I could go back a change one moment of my life, it would be the first time I self-harmed. If I knew at the time that this one small cut would be the start […]
The Depression Diaries: 365 Days Later…
So much can change in a year. If you told me one year ago I’d be where I am now I would have laughed in your face hysterically, until the hysterical laughter became hysterical tears, […]
The Depression Diaries: Living with Bulimia
I was a depressed bulimic. And for some time, that’s all I was. My identity was smothered with this thing; this deformed creature. It had its claws clasped around my body, my thoughts and even […]
The Depression Diaries: Suicide and Me
In the UK and ROI in 2013 there were 6,708 suicides. According to Samaritans; since 2007, the start of the recession, the rates of suicide have risen to their highest for over 30 years. In […]