Living and working with Anxiety and Depression. A diary of someone battling Mental”ill" Health.

 We seem to be in a fairly healthy period as far as my own Mental Health is concerned. It's just simmering away under the surface which is manageable to most of us.  So I'd like to invite you the readers to submit requests for topics I could cover to keep the blog going whilst things are relatively quiet.... It can be anything. But it would be great to get some ideas from you..... So please don't be shy...... Pete xx

  Hello again. Nothing for nearly two weeks and then two in four days.... It's like old times again.. Please note that the following is my story but for "me" please read "yourself" Or any one of the millions involved...... Unfortunately I have become one of the many recipients of a visit from the more malevolent of the Covid fairies. Like advance parties of special forces they sneak behind our defensive lines and try to find any weaknesses in our vaccines. So we've managed to go through the whole two years of Covid without any positive tests and then on Thursday I started feeling rough and took yet another test which would prove negative but instead confirmed the unwanted news. By evening on Thursday my limbs each felt like they weighed a ton and became so painful to move I have to virtually make a plan of how I'm going to move. I generally feel totally run down and the noises coming from my chest are getting confused with the cats.  And I'm shiverin...

 Hello folks and very sorry for the lateness of my little blog.  Things have become pretty busy with one thing and another, which has at last led me to thinking of a decent subject matter for an entry. I'm currently at that stage some of us sufferers experience where we are only too aware of where we have been and the effort it's taken to get to a good place. Not just ourself but from people around us. But having developed a personality strong enough to overcome a lot of what previously would stop us in our tracks or at best cause us fear and self doubt. We can find ourself in a position where we are being given opportunities to be constructive and creative once again. I personally have three or four areas where if I challenge myself in the right way I can actually begin to achieve some of the goals I've always wanted to. But there it is. To "challenge myself. " There is a huge risk involved for people who are easily discouraged. People who live with Imposter Synd...

  Well I saw this graphic the other day. And it kind of says everything I'm trying to get across to people. The person who suffers from mental ILL health often does it in silence. Or at least keeps it hidden from everyone.... So friends, colleagues, managers and loved ones can be misled into believing all is well. Even when we are going through some of the toughest periods of our life. It may also occur in some cases that to a trained eye there are behavioural signs that can indicate that a person is going through some form of mental health issue. If this is the case then an early intervention by a correctly qualified person by way of light conversation leading to the availability of assistance being highlighted can have a truly positive effect. But and as is played out in many scenarios in so many workplaces, these signs are either not seen or it is a conscious decision to NOT recognise them for whatever reasons. In this situation the weight of everyday decision making and a desir...