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I hadn’t even run 30 miles in my whole life and could barely jog for 90 seconds, so I was setting myself a real test.Exercise is great for mental health, but having a target to meet each day helped keep me motivated and prevent my anxiety from spiraling out of control. This time last year, I probably hadn’t even run 30 miles in my whole life and could barely jog for 90 seconds, so I was setting myself a real test in doing the 30-day Move for Mind Challenge.I wanted to do this challenge and raise money so that Mind can continue to be a great resource for people who are looking for support.

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18.02.2021 / 16:06

Taking care of my money and mental health

‘adult’ and not being able to manage my own finances. For being highly educated and not being able to manage my finances.

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15.02.2021 / 17:10

Blogging about my sexuality eased my depression

LGBTQ community existed, but it felt as though it was something you shouldn’t want to be a part of. The word ‘gay’ was casually thrown around as an insult, which only fed the idea that homosexuality was wrong.The difference between the ‘gay world’ and ‘straight world’ seemed black and white, but I felt stuck in the middleI didn’t understand my own feelings.

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08.02.2021 / 15:18

Coming to terms with my mother's suicide

suicide is one I will never forget. The shock, the confusion, the anger, the betrayal can never be erased from my memory even if I tried.

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03.02.2021 / 16:25

I cope by communicating

anxious and overwhelmed. I’m a social emotional and mental health mentor (which is a kind of teaching assistant), and to be honest at the moment it’s hard.

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19.01.2021 / 18:53

Telephone mental health support suited me more than online support

When lockdown came around, I found accessing support very difficult. I felt as though there was nowhere or no one to turn to.Throughout this challenging time, the one thing giving me hope was attending weekly children and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) sessions.

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18.01.2021 / 20:08

I am anorexic and I'm not underweight

The stereotype that to struggle with disordered eating you have to be a certain weight is a huge misconceptionThis isn’t actually unusual. The stereotype that to struggle with disordered eating you have to be a certain weight is a huge misconception.

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15.01.2021 / 13:16

Adventures eased my anxiety

anxiety led me to trapping myself in my house, rarely venturing outside at all, mixed with heavy drinking that ended up with a lengthy hospital stay, losing my house and my wife. One of the big things I learned was that adventures can be smallWith the support of family, friends, medical professionals and local substance support groups, I spent 2019 trying to “get back out there”, to dip my toes back in the world (and I wrote a book about it).

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14.01.2021 / 19:05

Sut rwy'n hybu hyder wrth godi arian i Mind

ar gael yn Saesneg (English).Cysylltais â Mind am y tro cyntaf yn dilyn digwyddiad trawmatig yn fy mywyd. Roeddwn i wedi bod mewn perthynas lle roeddwn yn cael fy ngham-drin gan gyn-bartner.

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14.01.2021 / 19:05

How I'm promoting confidence while raising money for Mind

available in Welsh (Cymraeg).I first got in touch with Mind following a traumatic incident in my life. I’d been in an abusive relationship with a now ex-partner who constantly talked down to me and treated me awfully, making horrible comments about my looks and tearing my confidence apart.At my lowest, it resulted in me attempting to take my own life.

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12.01.2021 / 20:55

Rowing the Atlantic for mental health

mental health issues, hitting rock bottom 3 years ago. One of his problems, he says, is that he was too 'manly', stubborn and proud to get the help he needed for far too long.

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12.01.2021 / 15:43

I found online mental health support challenging

borderline personality disorder and I’m under the care of a community mental health team. But then Covid-19 came in like a whirlwind.I received very little support in how best to engage with therapy online and just felt thrown into itSuddenly I was told my therapy would now be ‘digital’.

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07.01.2021 / 20:28

I turned my mental health crisis into a mental health triumph

Sat outside a coffee shop I started to feel funny. The only way I can honestly describe it is uncomfortable, so I decided to head back to my car to get away from the busy area.

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04.01.2021 / 12:04

Moving for Mind: How my anxiety doesn't define who I am

I’ve accepted that my anxiety will always be there but now I know it doesn’t have to have such power.The last few years I’ve been on a journey to discover the things that help me to manage and make peace with my anxiety. I went to therapy for two years, I worked through so many issues and it really taught me that my feelings are valid and the power of talking about how you are feeling. I do yoga, meditation, and journal and take medication.

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17.12.2020 / 14:22

A leap of faith

In the workplace, things seemed to be going well. Then I was sexually harassed; a frightening blow to my confidence.As I began to experience ‘the real world’, I grew and flourished. I was always more mature than my age - an old head on young shoulders.

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10.12.2020 / 19:44

Pen pals transformed my life

GAD (generalised anxiety disorder) since I was 17, and now at the age of 33 I've found something that gives my mental health a great boost - having pen pals. I can't go out to make friends, so this seemed like the perfect solution.It was a hobby I could do inside, so I didn't have to get anxious about going out or socialising.I first started pen palling around seven years ago, thinking it would be a great way to make friends.

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07.12.2020 / 19:40

Byw gyda galar a PTSD

2 Wish Upon a Star yn yr ysgol.Flwyddyn neu ddwy ar ôl i ni golli’r bechgyn, roedd Elizabeth i’w gweld yn emosiynol ac yn ofidus iawn. Doedd dim syniad gyda fi ble i droi am gefnogaeth.

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07.12.2020 / 19:40

Living with grief and PTSD

But it is incredibly difficult to deal with your own worries when you are worrying about your child.In November of the following year, I suffered a huge anxiety attack. It was Bonfire Night and the bangs and the noise triggered something in my memory.

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04.12.2020 / 21:37

Why I'm hosting a virtual Christmas Crafternoon

Instead of cards and presents for my birthday this year, I decided to host a virtual Christmas Crafternoon to raise money for Mind, so that my friends and I could craft together and have fun while supporting everyone’s mental health.I know now that holding it all in doesn’t help in the long run and I want to break the stigma of talking about our own mental health.Our mental health is so important right now. The pandemic has put strain on the entire world, so people who have never experienced mental health problems are finding themselves being more anxious and depressed, without access to their usual support systems.

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04.12.2020 / 12:37

My journey through grief

Losing my wife after 38 wonderful years, had a great impact on my wellbeing.Seeing Anne deteriorate from this terrible disease for 10 years, and then losing my wife after 38 wonderful years, had a great impact on my wellbeing. I think I was particularly unable to cope because of earlier trauma I had experienced. In a session with a psychologist some years later, he asked me about my childhood.

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03.12.2020 / 14:39

Covid made my anxiety spiral in 2020

The virus made it difficult for me to know how to act around others, petrified that I’d catch something. All of these issues snowballed into one giant problem, and I felt hopeless.The lack of interaction with people set me back in my quest to get a handle on my social anxiety.

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03.12.2020 / 13:37

The gift of kindness

depression feels like a world without colour, beauty, or clarity. I call it mine because it is a huge part of me and gives me the sense that I am in control (even if I so rarely feel that way).

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24.11.2020 / 16:25

How social prescribing gave me my life back

Thankfully, I made it to a GP in January 2017 and was diagnosed with anxiety and depression. The doctor advised me to get counselling.

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24.11.2020 / 15:57

Pulling hair has blighted my life

stress, lockdown has been a little nightmarish. Attempting to work and study from home with a baby and a six-year-old, whilst trying in vain to give each the attention they need, has re-ignited a habit that when all is plain sailing, I actually convince myself I have beaten.

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18.11.2020 / 12:25

Painting has helped me through the pandemic

Living in a pandemic I felt very isolated, which caused my anxiety to be triggered along with spells of depressionI live by myself, and during lockdown I have found it difficult because I have not been able to see anybody. Living and working in a pandemic I feel very isolated, which has caused my anxiety to be triggered along with spells of depression.

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18.11.2020 / 12:24

Can we just talk?

I found myself questioning my own self-belief: worrying if I had what it took. It screws with your headDuring my first season racing in Formula 1, I might have looked like the new kid on the block full of confidence and enthusiasm but that really wasn’t the case.

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13.11.2020 / 16:10

Supporting our callers during the pandemic

We’re expecting even more calls over winter as we all face Coronavirus lockdowns and restrictions for a while. We are here for you.I’ve been answering calls on Mind’s Infoline for two years.

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27.10.2020 / 00:05

Why students should receive mental health support at university

But by Christmas, I had started feeling better and on top of things. I started to imagine life in my new city for the next few years.

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19.10.2020 / 12:47

Mental health services: 'What is it about your outreach that makes it hard to reach our Black communities?

The term 'hard to reach' is quite stigmatising and diminishing. If we’re hard to reach, it suggests we're the problemI'm not interested in trying to replace this term with phrases like ‘seldom heard’, 'hard to engage', or 'reachable distance'. Though they may have their merits, no language will perfectly represent our communities' concerns.

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15.10.2020 / 15:09

How Active Monitoring helped me come to terms with my mental health

I started having what I call ‘moments’, where I felt like I was simply scrambling to keep my head above water.I would have times where I would burst into tears for no reason or I felt like I couldn't breathe, but just brushed it off and got on with things as well as I could.March is when things started to get really hard. I don't think it had ever crossed my mind that a global pandemic would be something I would live through.

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15.10.2020 / 12:41

A letter to Bipolar

You drove those I loved away and drained my bank account with your reckless, manic spontaneityYou know as well as I do how that went. You dropped a present on my doorstep a few years ago – a heavy box labeled ‘depression’, and in exchange stole two years of my life.

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08.10.2020 / 20:27

How swimming has helped my mental health

It needed to be something I did for myself without expectations. Something that enabled me to think or not think at all.

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08.10.2020 / 20:26

Sut mae nofio wedi helpu gyda fy iechyd meddwl

Just keep swimming...Rwy’ wedi bod yn ceisio llunio’r blog hwn yn fy mhen wrth nofio yn fy mhwll lleol, ond rwy’ bob amser wedi teimlo braidd yn lletchwith ynghylch ysgrifennu am y modd mae nofio wedi fy helpu i reoli fy iechyd meddwl. Pe baech chi’n gofyn i fi am y peth mewn sgwrs, fydden i’n ateb heb broblem, ond mae rhoi’r geiriau i lawr ar bapur yn eu gwneud nhw’n fwy parhaol, mewn rhyw ffordd.

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06.10.2020 / 12:17

Calligraphy eased my anxiety

anxieties and worries – all thanks to that one afternoon.The thing about practising calligraphy is that you have no choice but to be present and mindful in the moment. That’s because, no matter how advanced you are, it’s a skill that requires you to slow down and focus on each letter stroke, one by one.Focusing on each letter meant I didn’t have the capacity to think about my anxieties.When I was a beginner, I remember whittling away hours practicing on the weekends and evenings.

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02.10.2020 / 14:19

Finding inner peace in the pandemic

Anxiety during lockdown has been a big challenge for me, as I adore being around friends, family and colleagues.What this virus has brought is nothing short of devastation for all, and for myself personally, it’s been a myriad of emotions along the journey. When I’m feeling anxious, I rely on my faith, family and friends.

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28.09.2020 / 12:36

Riding the pandemic

I started to feel overwhelmed with the coronavirus crisis so I decided to listen to the news just once a day as it was all getting too much and I was getting anxious about all sorts of uncertainties. My business, my family, finance, the future - the list goes on!My head and mind felt like I was being sucked into a whirlwind of information, and I could feel my anxiety creep back in and wash over me.I’ve actually named my anxiety Garth after advice from a close friendI’ve actually named my anxiety Garth after advice from a close friend.

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23.09.2020 / 15:14

Stand For Me and for addiction support

available in Welsh (Cymraeg).I picked up my first drug at the age of 13. From then on, things just went out of control. When I was using, I didn’t have to be me.

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23.09.2020 / 15:14

Sefwch Drosof I a dros gymorth caethiwed

ar gael yn Saesneg (English).Cefais fy nghyffur cyntaf yn 13 mlwydd oed. O hynny ymlaen, aeth pethau allan o reolaeth.Pan oeddwn i’n defnyddio, doedd dim rhaid i mi fod yn fi.

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23.09.2020 / 15:12

Sefwch Drosof I a fy anhwylder bwyta

ar gael yn Saesneg (English).Yn 2019, cefais fy ngollwng o’r ysbyty am yr wythfed – a gobeithio – y tro olaf. Rwyf wedi brwydro yn erbyn anorecsia am 18 mlynedd ac, er fy mod yn gwella erbyn hyn, roedd yn teimlo fy mod wedi bod mewn perthynas gyda fy meddwl fy hun yn fy ngham-drin.Daeth Anorexia Nervosa i’m bywyd y tro cyntaf pan oeddwn i’n naw mlwydd oed.

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23.09.2020 / 14:37

Stand For Me and my eating disorder

available in Welsh (Cymraeg).In 2019, I was discharged from hospital for the eighth – and hopefully final – time. I have battled anorexia for 18 years and, while I am now in recovery, it has felt as if I have been in an abusive relationship with my own mind.Anorexia Nervosa first arrived on the scene when I was nine years old.

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22.09.2020 / 19:28

How I learnt to focus on self-care

anxiety and have done for as long as I can remember. One of my triggers is illness.

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22.09.2020 / 19:19

The benefits system failed me

anxiety has got worse as I've got older. I don't have massive highs and massive lows.

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11.09.2020 / 19:19

The toll of not being able to have children

mental health. I am childless not by choice and a bit like having longstanding mental health problems it is another club that I never expected to be in.Like many people I have always dreamed of being a mother – I guess I first thought about it aged around 12 or 13 when I started babysitting in my local community and was told “You are a natural with kids” “You would make a great mother one day”.

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09.09.2020 / 13:11

Lockdown liberated me

The dark and ugly beast of depression had crawled back into the very shadows of my mindIt’s like the dark and ugly beast of depression had crawled back into the very shadows of my mind. Lockdown was the weapon that was saving me.

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02.09.2020 / 11:55

Yoga Changed My Life

Although I had money I had no relationship, no life, and no joy. I came home and cried every night.

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28.08.2020 / 19:41

I rowed 184 miles to my parents' home for Mind

raise money for Mind.I have battled with anxiety for several years now, so I was already aware of Mind and wanted to raise money for them, and I am delighted that Co-op is supporting Mind as It’s national charity partner. I thought this challenge would capture people’s imaginations and help raise awareness of how being separated from family and friends in lockdown can affect your mental health. Whilst being away from my parents is quite normal for me, them being in lockdown caused me a lot of concern.

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24.08.2020 / 13:17

Nursing through the pandemic broke me

coronavirus pandemic would be apocalyptic.I never valued my mental health and well-being in the workplace until this virus descended on us.’As an NHS frontline worker, witnessing the catastrophic nature of covid-19 dealt my mental health a hard blow. I never valued my mental health and well-being in the workplace until this virus descended on us.

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14.08.2020 / 20:21

Supporting Trans+ people

Twenty years ago, when I was a young genderqueer person, I was going through a rough time. My family had been very distant for some years, and I was facing some backlash from my chosen LGB family about coming out as trans.

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