Depression Articles
by Andrea Blundell The world is a mess and it’s made you stop caring. About, well…. anything. Is it okay to feel like nothing matters? Or are there times when apathy is a serious red flag? Define apathy? Apathy can be defined as a state of indifference and the inability to act. We lack motivation...
Have you been very ill of late? But doctors can’t find a known cause? A doctor or psychiatrist might give you a diagnosis of ‘conversion disorder’. What is conversion disorder? Conversion disorder involves having a physical illness that medical tests can’t find the cause of. And in some cases it’s quite a serious set of...
Has an injury or illness left you with a physical impairment? And have your moods been affected? Physical disability and mental health challenges often come hand in hand. The unseen struggle Physical impairment can lead to having to adjust so many practical things about your day-to-day life, that mental health doesn’t even make the list...
Has someone you loved betrayed you? A friend left you feeling rejected? Or a colleague let you down? What can you do if you are left feeling hurt? What to Do If You Are Feeling Hurt 1. Let yourself feel what you need to feel. Repressing our emotions can be like keeping a beach...
Not yourself lately? Or feel all over the place? Mood disorders are treatable conditions that many of us experience. What is a mood disorder? Mood disorders are pretty much what they sound like. They are a group of mental health diagnoses were the main issue is changes to how you feel that don’t match what...
by Andrea Blundell Read advice that tells you that if you feel low, just ‘reach out’? But attempts you have made (if any) have gone poorly and left you feeling bad? Reaching out is a skill that not all of us learned as a child or were encouraged to do. On a good note, skills...
Spend hours thinking about situations in great detail? Or about a certain person or thing? Rumination is an unhelpful thinking pattern we can get stuck in. The meaning of rumination Rumination in a sentence, to go by the Cambridge English dictionary, is “the act of thinking carefully and for a long period about something”. But...
by Andrea Blundell Had grand plans for all you’d get done during lockdown? Only to find yourself underachieving and acting far from your typical self? Social isolation is at work on your mental health and the way your brain functions. Social isolation and your brain There actually isn’t a body of research on the sort...
At first the pandemic had you anxious. But now you have the ‘blahs’. What can you do if lockdown life means every day starts with, “I am bored”? What is boredom? The way one person feels when saying “I’m bored” might be entirely different from what another person feels when they say the same thing....
by Andrea Blundell Is someone you love responding to the global pandemic in ways you don’t understand, or are even upsetting for you? Or are you yourself reacting in ways others around you are annoyed by? It’s time for us all to recognise and have patience with the fact that prior mental health issues make...
