After watching Nadiya Hussain's fabulous documentary 'Anxiety and Me' I thought it was about darn time I wrote about my experiences with Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. I visited the doctors the year before last to find out why I felt so wired all the time. Overactive thyroids run in my family so that was my suspicion. … Continue reading My CBT Experience: Mental Health Awareness Week
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The Importance of Rest: Mental Health Awareness Week
A Danielle Steel interview made the rounds last week. In this interview she claimed to work twenty-two hours a day. Now, I have serious doubts about the truth of this to be honest, but what got me was the amount of people applauding her for her ‘work ethic’. Hmm. Two hours of sleep (presuming she … Continue reading The Importance of Rest: Mental Health Awareness Week
My Anxious Life: Mental Health Awareness Week
For as far back as I remember I’ve been afraid. Not in an oh god, there’s a spider kind of way (although, why anything needs eight legs and eyes is still beyond me), but a constant bubble of nerves beneath my skin. Sometimes it rises into full pre-interview fear, often for no discernible reason, and … Continue reading My Anxious Life: Mental Health Awareness Week
Battling a Lack of Motivation: Mental Health Awareness Week
I must begin with an apology for not posting in almost a month (WTF Rebecca?!), but the reason for being absent is also the reason I’m back—mental health. As you may know it’s currently mental health awareness week, and as mental health impacts our lives on a daily basis I’ve decided to post every day … Continue reading Battling a Lack of Motivation: Mental Health Awareness Week
I Said This Would Be My Year
I said this would be my year, the year I got at least one duck in my row, but alas it isn't. Surprise! My mum told me today there's no way I'm going to have the money to move out in the next three months. No way I'd get one of the thousands of jobs … Continue reading I Said This Would Be My Year
The Importance of Friends During a Spiralling Self-Confidence Crisis
My aim with this blog is to always be open and honest. If I can make just one person feel less shitty then spilling all my stuff on the internet is worth it. I think… Anyway, recently (and when I say recently I mean over the past several years…) my self-confidence has PLUMMETED. A steady … Continue reading The Importance of Friends During a Spiralling Self-Confidence Crisis
Meet the Blogger
Hello there! I’ve done a lot of ‘issue’ posts of late and gained a few of you lovely folks but I realise I’ve never done a proper introduction. So, who the bloody hell am I? The Dull Stuff: My name’s Rebecca (Becky, Becca, B). I’m 26 (birthday’s in July. Start saving up for presents…😝). I’m … Continue reading Meet the Blogger
Books That Defined My Life
Books have been the making and the breaking of me over the years—they’ve been the reason for losing friends and what brought me to the people who mean the most. Whenever I find myself alone, I can always turn to those fictional worlds I’ve experienced on a page. From the moment Hermione taught me it … Continue reading Books That Defined My Life
Quit Your Job and Run Away with the Circus
There was a Twitter thread going around this week telling people to quit their day job and follow their dreams. In theory this is fine—follow your dreams, kids—but not when you really analyse it. Leaving your job on a whim to follow a dream that has no guarantee of payment is not a clever move … Continue reading Quit Your Job and Run Away with the Circus
Battling Dragons and Climbing Mountains
When I was trying to come up with something to write about today I couldn’t think of a damn thing. After a lot of mental straining the only word that came to mind was helpless because that’s how I’ve spent a long time feeling. Helpless is how I would describe my mood today. I did … Continue reading Battling Dragons and Climbing Mountains
