When my sight deteriorated at the age of twenty three I really didn’t know what to do with myself anymore. I was a Nursery Nurse and I had been since leaving school. That was all I had ever known work wise. I had been wanting a change for a while, so in a way this…
Category: Sight Loss
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…
OFCD Syndrome
All my life I have had to deal with hospitals, appointments and tests, it’s just the way life is. In some ways I feel it has made me stronger. I don’t freak out over the tiniest needle or worry myself sick over routine check ups. There has never been a stage in my life where…
Making Assumptions and First Impressions
You can’t have a second chance of a first impression. The problem with first impressions is that they can be completely wrong. Everybody has a first impression of somebody, it’s just natural. We like the look of somebody or we don’t, we think they dress nice or they don’t, they are intelligent or they are…
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…
Frogs and Fairy Tales
Life is a funny old thing. In a split second it can completely change it’s course. Sometimes that’s not a good thing at all, but sometimes it is. I grew up imagining a wonderful fairy tale adult life, a big wedding, a big house, a big family, like most little girls do. Too young to…
A Blog About Blogging – by The Blogger
It’s hard to believe, but three years ago I didn’t even know what a blog was. Not really. I just knew that it was where people wrote things online. I didn’t know why, or who, or when or even how. I was just a Sheffield lass in my late twenties with no obvious future because…
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…
Glitter In The Darkness 