Tag: depression
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When you wake up from depression you need to give yourself grace
I’m rubbish at sticking to goals that aren’t massively important. Do I want to write more? Yep. Do I actually write more? Nope. Part of not writing recently has been from what a dumpster fire the last few months have been, personally (and well, globally too amiright?). It’s only when my mental health finally got…
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Coping with grief when you’re okay is weird
It’s Autumn and if you’ve stuck with me through the years you’ll know that it’s my favourite season. The temperatures are just starting to cool off slightly and today it was foggy this morning – and I do so love a foggy morning! In this post I talk about cancer, suicide, and childlessness so if…
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Mental Health Awareness Week and learning about well-being
It’s mental health awareness week and I wanted to write a little about the Yale course I’ve been doing on the Science of Well-Being (it’s free!). It’s full of pretty great info on studies about happiness and how your brain works and what makes people happy. The first 6 weeks of the course is all…
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It’s that time of year again
This year is so strange. I feel stuck in May, back when it was hot and sunny. I certainly felt better then. I feel like I’ve blinked and suddenly it’s September. This is usually the start of my favourite time of year. The cooler weather, the leaves and sky changing colour and all that. But…
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Chica’s Log: Supplemental
The other day I posted a photo on Instagram of all the tablets I take and I wanted to take some time and write about them because I’ve found some of them damn near miraculous in how much they have helped me. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Tish Smith (@mrstcsmith) on…
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What up, 2019?
I had 11 days off over Christmas and New Year! I usually love taking that time to reflect, plan, and look ahead at the coming year. This time I did a tiny bit of that, but mostly I slept, watched telly, played video games, cooked food, and basically did as little as possible. I obviously…
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One year later
Content warning: suicide, cancer. This week is the year anniversary of my last hysteroscopy follow up, when we already knew the results weren’t positive so thankfully we were prepared and we made the decision for me to get a hysterectomy. I have my 1 year post-cancer follow up next week (a month early but that’s…
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Everything is awesome!
It’s serendipitous that my operation was when it was so that my recovery was during the last two months of a really crappy year. I’m one of those people that likes thinking of new years as new beginnings in a way, and this year is just so much more than that. Because my recovery has…
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Recovery is boring! Randomest post ever.
I have so many things I could do but my concentration is at an all time low so I don’t want to do anything. I have books, telly (when Netflix can bother to work!), and have even tried playing some games this week. I can handle things for about 30 minutes max then I’m ready…