Hi I’m Laura and this is my blog about Mental Health.
I have lived with depression and anxiety for most of my life, I’ve known more days with feelings of depression and anxiety than days without these feelings. When I finally get a good day it feels likes it’s over in a flash and I maybe didn’t appreciate it as much as I should have as the next day can be like crashing back down to earth. As each day passes and as I get older I have started to learn to appreciate the good days and moments a lot more especially on my bad days because the reality is that without the bad times we go through, we can’t fully appreciate the good times so if I was to give anyone a piece of advice it would be to enjoy when things are great even if it is just for a few moments in a day because you never know when the tide will turn.
Living with depression and anxiety I believe is something that I’ll always have, it might not be every single day in my life that I feel depressed or anxious but through my experiences it’s something that I always have to work through especially in times of what I call ‘flare ups’ when times get really tough and it feels like things will never get better. After having it for so long I know that it can get better and that’s always one of my main focuses. No matter how bad things get, each second that passes is another second I’ve survived, those seconds turn into minutes, hours, days, weeks and years and no matter what you or I do, time doesn’t stand still so if I end up spend that time worrying or I use a coping technique, the second, minute etc will pass either way. Once I realised this it made it easier to focus, however that doesn’t mean that I never spend time overthinking, worrying, anxious and having panic attacks – all of those things still happen unfortunately but after seeking help after these occurrences continued to happen I now have ways of dealing with them and coping with life day to day. I’ll share these coping techniques and strategies in the next few posts and I hope they can help you as well.
I don’t want to ramble on and bore anyone so I’ll keep this fairly short but if I have helped you from reading this right now then that’s fantastic and that is my goal – to be able to help others to open up and talk and to make Mental Health a subject people talk about ‘normally’ rather than all the negativity that surrounds it.
Thank you for reading! Speak soon.
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