Category: Mental Illness

Heads up: this is absolutely not a “going vegan will cure your mental illness” blog post, it won’t. This is merely an explanation of how going vegan is supporting my personal recovery. Why vegan? Five years ago I wrote a blog post called On Vegetarianism, that was when my cognitive dissonance around food revved up a gear. In that post...

I tried yoga a couple of years ago because I wanted to lose weight and do exercise because fat shaming is a thing & hating my body (& myself) is my favourite past time. I spent my time on the mat using every pose I struggled with or couldn’t do to further hate my body and berate myself. I pushed...

This is a response to Sarah Hawkinson‘s video (embedded below) about whether we should be proud of our mental illness, and the ‘anti-recovery’ community. She was responding to a video I haven’t yet watched, but intend to. I want to preface this by saying that I understand what Sarah is trying to say, and she does try to clarify certain...

My 2017 has been all about mental illness, mental health, and recovery, but it seems the end of the year is going to be about revelations thanks to my 2016 life planner, now re-purposed for 2017! CW: small mention of passive suicidality. Closing 2017 The first revelation came in November as I crossed out the 6 on the 2016 closing...

It will come as no shock to anyone with a mental illness, or any chronic illness or disability I suspect, to hear that if you are on sick leave, or unable to work due to your illness, people are generally determined to tell you, repeatedly, that work is important & will help you. Sometimes those comments are well-meaning but ignorant,...