Motherhood and mental health
Turning 30 has made me think a lot about pregnancy and babies. I have always assumed that I’d have a baby ‘one day.’ That it was something I was ‘meant’ Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Mental health
What it takes to feel “normal”
If you’re a person living with mental health challenges or mental illness, you’re probably very familiar with the many hurdles you have to jump to get help. Are you sick Continue Reading →
The Walking Stick Tree
Someone told me about Trish Harris’ The Walking Stick Tree – a memoir by a woman diagnosed with Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis when she was six – a week ago, and within a Continue Reading →
Disasters and people with disabilities
What happens if a quake hits and you can’t look after you? There are many people in our communities who are vulnerable. I’ve been thinking about what that means since Sunday Continue Reading →
Please don’t cut our lifeline
New Zealand is in a mental health crisis. And the services at the front lines of that crisis are under threat. What will happen if they don’t exist anymore?
Folks: inside chronic illness
I write for Folks magazine. They feature people living with disabilities or chronic illness – the stories are about who these people are, not just their diagnosis.
I’m a slacktivist and I’m alright
Yeah, I’m a slacktivist. I don’t go to protests. I don’t look at news sites. I rarely give money. And I haven’t even been writing. So where does that leave Continue Reading →
Why I’m not around
You may have noticed I’ve been pretty quiet lately. My health has been doing a slow, painful nosedive and yesterday I got some crappy news that might explain some of that.
Depression isn’t diabetes
That may seem like an obvious thing to say. But I am really, really sick of conflating mental illnesses with physical ones (which is a false dichotomy in itself) in Continue Reading →
False idols and self care
I’ve been a fan of Laurie Penney for a while, but she just continually outdoes herself. Her recent column, ‘Life-Hacks of the Poor and Aimless: On negotiating the false idols of Continue Reading →