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Coming out proud: the battle against the stigma of mental illness: Erica lives with depression, anxiety, and OCD, and she's speaking out today as she's unashamed, and wishes to play her part in breaking the stigma it has in society. Click to read or pin to save and share. //////// Life Lessons / Self Awareness & Reflections / Mental Health & Illness / Depression / OCD / Anxiety / Stigma / Society #MentalIllness #depression #anxiety #SickLessons #LifeLessons

24th November 2018

Mental Health

Coming out proud: the battle against the stigma of mental illness

I am mentally ill. And no, it’s not contagious. I have depression, anxiety, and OCD, and I am NOT...

Years of battling chronic chronic illness has left me in a permanent mode of ‘fight’, but I want to acquire a taste for happiness. | www.sicklessons.com | #sickelssons #lifelessons #acceptance #spoonies #chronicpain #chronicillness #happiness #hope

12th June 2018

A Chronic Voice, Mental Health, Physical Health

Maybe I was built for fighting

I get restless when there’s nothing wrong with the world. I am not used to having peace and...

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As much as I had been rejecting pain, I had been also rejecting my body. I was attached to something that no longer existed.

Do I Have To Accept Living In Chronic Pain Forever?

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She knows how to accept and also to let go with grace, and that is why she does not fear.

Me 1.0 is dead. What will I do with Me 2.0?

I never realised that I had an inner child, until my psychologist guided me to her. But first we had to get past the angry girl who guarded her with a fierce passion. Over time I learned that it was up to me as the adult to keep our little 'home' intact. Click to read or pin to save for later. | www.sicklessons.com | #sicklessons #lifelessons #innerchild #angrygirl #selfawareness #healing

1st May 2018

A Chronic Voice, Emotional Health, Mental Health

My inner child and the angry girl

Note: I published this piece on Medium a year or two ago, so circumstances have evolved. Nevertheless, it...

How a depressive period made me realise that sleep is a gift. Click to read or pin to save for later. | www.sicklessons.com | #sleep #mentalhealth #wellbeing #insomnia #sicklessons #lifelessons

26th April 2018

Mental Health, Physical Health

How a depressive period made me realise that sleep is a gift

"Well you only need the light when it's burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow Only...

As someone who's always sick, I don't have much to offer in terms of wealth or connections. I'm not very fun to hang out or travel with either. Yet these vulnerabilities lead to real human connections; the friends and family who choose to stay could only be the best that humanity has to offer. Click to read or pin to save for later. | www.sicklessons.com | #sicklessons #lifelessons #humanity #friendships #relationships #family

21st April 2018

A Chronic Voice, Emotional Health

How to attract the best people in the universe

I suppose there's no need to state the obvious, but there's nothing fun about being chronically ill. Or...

Thanks to the drugs that suppress my overactive immune system, I caught tuberculosis from an unknown source. I had to learn how to let go and heal, how to ask for help, and that it’s okay to do so. It was the year which emphasised the knowledge, that I will always be okay in the end. Click to read or pin to save for later. | www.sicklessons.com | #sicklessons #lifelessons #achronicvoice #tuberculosis #coffee #littlepleasures #spoonie

13th April 2018

Mental Health, Physical Health

The year I couldn’t drink coffee

Gee Thanks, Immune System and Drugs Thanks to the drugs that suppress my overactive immune system, I caught TB...

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So maybe we are not only the canaries in the coal mine, but also the innovators of a new happier and healthier world.

Spoonies Saving the World: Our Value as the Canaries in the Coal Mine

We all will, at some point, experience a storm in our lives; a dark period that at the time feels like it will last forever. But, of course, nothing in life is permanent. Our experiences and feelings like most things such as storms are transient, before moving on, and making way for the sun to shine once more. | www.sicklessons.com | #sicklessons #lifelessons #chronicillness #chronicpain #selfbelief #selfawareness

4th April 2018

Mental Health

Storms Don’t Last Forever

When Will the Storm Pass? A few weeks ago much of the UK was battered by Storm Doris. High...

The day I truly felt sexy, confident and beautiful. Click to read or pin to save for later. | www.sicklessons.com | #sicklessons #achronicvoice #lifelessons #chroniclife #spoonies #inspiration #stomabags #ileostomy

1st April 2018

Mental Health, Physical Health

The day I truly felt sexy, confident and beautiful

It never ceases to amaze me how the universe continues to work in mysterious ways. Never in a...

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Connecting with nature can help to create a positive perspective on life, and brings back a sense of wonder for the world we live in.

Connecting with nature when living with a chronic illness

How do you continue to live life to the full when your health limits everything you do? How do you cope with waiting for a reprieve in symptoms when the reality is, no reprieve is coming? Here's how patience and purpose is so important when coping with chronic illness. Click to read or pin to save for later. | www.sicklessons.com | #sicklessons #achronicvoice #spoonielife #chronicpain #lifelessons #patience #lifepurpose

30th March 2018

Emotional Health, Mental Health

Patiently Waiting For Purpose

How do you continue to live life to the full when your health limits everything you do? How do...

30th March 2018

Emotional Health

The big difference between empathy and sympathy

This animation is short, but brilliant 🙂 People who are suffering do not need sympathy; despise it even....

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I am blessed to know my body in ways that no one else can, because pain forces you to sit up, and give all your attention to it.

My body is a bloody mess, but I love it just the same

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