We are a week into the lock down now in the UK. Obviously everyone reading this that lives in the UK will be well aware of that. Just thought I’d mention in for any international readers. One week ago today everything was advised to close. To start with a few businesses tried to keep on…
Category: PTSD (Post traumatic stress disorder)
Just One of Those Days
It seems that I am still getting those feelings occasionally that I often felt with my PTSD. The feelings of extreme stress and being overwhelmed by everything. Well, not really everything, it’s just the enormity of it makes it feel like everything. That feeling that as hard as I try I just can’t shake it…
Birthdays and Besties
Recently I wrote a post about my birthday and how it didn’t exactly go to plan. It was nobody’s fault at all, it was just one of those days where things kept happening. Luckily though I had another birthday do to fall back on. I went out for a meal with my friends. We went…
Blog Therapy/Birthday Blog
Some days I just need to write. I don’t always know what about, I don’t always care, I just need to write. Today is one of those days. I don’t really know where this post is going, I’m just making it up as I go along. It might make sense, or it might be just…
My PTSD Journey – Part 3 (The end of CBT)
Well here we are… the end of a very long and challenging year of my life but also a big chunk of my life. Over the last year I have been living with post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and having cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to treat it. Before starting my therapy I heard a lot…
The Power of Distraction
Over the years I have come to realise that thinking does not do me any good. I’m not really sure that it does anybody any good. Over thinking doesn’t anyway. Over thinking just sends your mind around in circles and it never ever ever ends. There’s so many things in life to over think and…
Summing up 2019
As we are coming to the end of the year I thought I would write a bit about how this year has been for me. I think it’s fair to say it has been a very mixed bag of emotions, happiness, sadness, laughter, tears and every other emoji face ever invented. Going back to the…
CBT – Cognitive Bahavioural Therapy
Over the past few months I have been having cognitive behavioural therapy, or CBT. This is to help me with my symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). There has been a lot of talk about mental health in the news recently so I thought I would just go through what CBT actually is for…
My PTSD Journey – Part 2 (The Assessment)
Continuing from My PTSD Journey – Part 1. Follow this link to have a read of this. https://glitterinthedarkness.home.blog/2019/05/25/my-ptsd-journey-part-1/ I had waited about a month and as promised IAPT got in touch with me about my first CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) appointment. I was actually looking forward to it. I find mental health issues and therapies…
Love your liver – Alcohol doesn’t
“Don’t drink” they say, “You’ll damage your liver” they say. What does that even mean??? You may be sitting there supping your drink in a beer goggled bliss. But it won’t last forever. You really don’t know what damage you are doing to yourself. Yes this is a drinking lecture, but it’s not just any…
Glitter In The Darkness 