You've Knocked My Duck Off
For Dyslexia Awareness Week, I want to shine a light on how important it is to nurture neurodiversity and truly...
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Community Stories: What works for you?
What do you do to help your mental health? It could be anything. It might even be something you hadn’t...
Ruth Durkin: All I want for Christmas is you
In the last two months of my pregnancy in 2017, I had prenatal depression. This meant that in addition to...
Peter Shaw: How I’ve Taken Back Control of My Story
Having struggled with both social anxiety disorder and depression for many years without being properly diagnosed and therefore not understanding...
Juliet Mcdonald: For My Mother
I have always found that writing things down when I am upset, grieving, etc. really helps me to come to...
Community Stories: Death and Grief
Death and grief was our theme for September, marking World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10th. Here the Sheffield Flourish...
Sarah Cardwell: How blogging helps
Just 2 years ago I had one of my more serious breakdowns, leading to a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder...
Sam Sharp: Here by the Sea
I wrote this poem as part of the Rotherham Flourish group in summer 2018. At around this I was asked...
Trish Chester: Straight Talking
I want to talk to you about death. I know and understand that it’s a subject many people are very...
Charlie Roebuck: My Story(ish)
I had a privileged upbringing. My parents and grandparents would do anything to help me achieve what I wanted and...
Suicide and Me
I am an anaesthetist, close to retirement. When I was growing up in the 1960s, suicide was not something that...