Shut Up For A Minute You And I Need To Talk About Depression

With just months to live, life should have been about grabbing all those opportunities to see all those things he’d always wanted to. It should have been about pulling those in that he loved most and telling them he loved them with every ounce of his being. Depression being the cruel illness it is wouldn’t [...]

Inside The Mind Of A Self Harmer And How You Can Help One

When I wrote a piece of self injury a few months I wrote it for others who self harmed. It was to show that even people who seem relatively strong and sure of themselves on the outside aren’t always feeling that way on the inside. It was also to act to reduce some of the [...]

France Removes Transsexualism From Mental Illnesses List

With all the reports of the amount of homophobia that exists in France, it doesn’t tend to pop into your head when you think of what countries are being most progressive in terms of LGBT rights, however it currently is being just that as France has become the first country to remove transsexualism from it’s [...]

I Admit It I Didn’t Get That Scar Falling Over I Did It Self Harming

None of us like to show our weaknesses, it makes us feel vulnerable to attack and that’s never a position anyone wants to be in, particularly me. In fact if I had my way I would like to retain an image of being a fun loving, occasionally funny and semi-intelligent person and leave it at [...]