The days were everything just gets in your way? You wake up tired. Your bus/train is late, or gets delayed on the way. Other pedestrians in front of you just seem to constantly get in your way. These are the days when trying to stay calm just feels impossible. I had one of those days …
I have to stop limiting my self. I cannot do this, I cannot do that. Oh I am not sure that is me… Why do I expend so much mental energy on these thoughts. It obviously ties back to how I want to be perceived by others, but that isn’t a ‘life’. It isn’t authentic.
Steps are finally being taken by Australian parliament to bring equality to the marriage act, with the Australian senate passing the Dean Smith private members bill this week. The plebiscite and the public ‘debate’ that was happening in Australia was deeply damaging to the LGBTI community and hugely polarising across the country. However I am glad …
“And be aware that your emotions may not be that simple. You can feel relief, exhaustion, grief and generally overwhelmed, no matter what the result. It’s okay to feel negative emotions even if you got the result you wanted, and vice versa.” Source: https://www.sane.org/the-sane-blog/wellbeing/self-care-after-hearing-the-same-sex-marriage-result
Today was a difficult day mentally. The last few weeks have left me quiet drained and I haven’t been sleeping well at all. But today I felt really overloaded… I missed an important telephone interview that was planned today, as I thought it was at different time. And I have never done that before! It …
It was kind of like a productive procrastination. Not doing what I needed to, but still getting other things done… My anxiety seems to be worse this last week, and it is affecting my sleep, which in turn makes my anxiety worse. I was going to go on another date tonight but made up an …
I am watching a powerful documentary, hitting on a number of struggles Olly Alexander (from Years & Years) and others have faced while coming out. It touches on quite a number of difficult themes relating to the coming out ‘process’, anxiety and depression. While it also talking about some of the serious mental coping mechanisms …
One thing that keeps popping into my head over and over again is the fear of being ‘found out’ or imposter syndrome. After a few weeks on cloud nine, everything was looking peachy, until something came up at work and I realised I don’t know 100% what to do! It hit me like a lead …
Things started getting a little bit rougher, and then the big waves come. It is so hard when these waves start crashing down upon you to rise above it, to cling onto whatever you can to keep your head above water. But as my mind feels like it is sinking and being pounded by the …