Tag Archive | Mental Health Awareness
Scars – Guest Post/Poem by Theresa Dunn
Hi all, Following on in our tradition of publishing guest posts I am delighted to be able to share this one from Theresa. As someone who has personal experience of the struggle with self-harming I am very much aware that this can be a difficult topic to deal with. I am also aware that sometimes […]
Guest Post – 5 Things You Don’t Realise Your Anxiety Causes You To Do
Hi all, In keeping with our policy of publishing relevant ‘Guest Posts’, I am delighted to publish this one which was submitted to us by Chris Worfolk from over at ‘worfolkanxiety.com‘. Chris is the author of ‘Technical Anxiety: The Complete Guide to What Is Anxiety And What To Do About It’ and writes his personal […]
Heads Together – A Right Royal Approach.
In a day and age when so much bad news, unrest and uncertainty, seems to fill our newspapers, television screens and indeed social media, it is a breath of fresh air when you see something special and positive in the news. Especially if, like me, you have a passion for mental health issues and if […]
Gust Post – An Open Letter to an elderly patient.
I am delighted to share the following Guest Post with you all. It was sent to me by it’s author Karla A. Viera, MD. It is – as she explained in her email to me – ‘an open letter to an elderly patient’. And is shared with us with ‘the purpose of humanizing mental health […]
Guest Post by Laura A. – ‘My son’s best friend.’
I am delighted to be able to publish this ‘Guest Post’ which was sent in to us by Laura A. As someone who experiences mental health challenges myself, and as someone who writes and blogs about them, and as someone who – running this mental health writer’s guild – who reads a lot of blog […]
An Open Letter to Parents of a Child with Mental Illness – Guest Post by Whitney Hawkins
As members will know, I have a policy of encouraging members to submit unique, original and previously unpublished pieces for publication as a ‘Guest Post’ here on the guild’s blog. And I have always been delighted by the response in both the submissions that I have received and the feedback that these have generated. Today’s […]
Mental Illness Is Not Contagious – Guest Post by Marie A. Abanga
It gives me the greatest of pleasure to be able to share this guest post shared with us today by a dear blogging friend of mine from over at Merry Marie. Marie has been a great supporter of the MHWG and also a great and much valued support to me personally and the guest post […]
Anxiety – Guest Post by Faith.
This morning I would very much like to share a guest post with you which simply comprises of a poem sent to me by a twelve grade student called Faith. Here is what Faith said… Hi! My name is Faith and I am currently a grade twelve student. There have been some really difficult times […]
What One Thing Can People Do To Reduce Mental Health Stigma – Featured Article
I have recently been contacted by Marcus over at PSYSCI.CO regarding an article that he had written with the help of some of the guild’s members. This article entitled ‘What One Thing Can People Do To Reduce Mental Health Stigma‘ asks and answers exactly what the title suggests and makes for interesting reading which very much […]
Concerning Anonymity
As someone who openly writes about his mental health and mental illnesses and who is totally ‘out there’ and ‘public’ concerning these and how they impact my life. And as someone who has – as a result of this openness and some people’s extremely poor and uneducated attitude towards mental illness – experienced (and yes […]
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