How I’ve Learnt to Live with an Anxiety Disorder | Health & Self-Care

December 3, 2020.Reading time 14 minutes.

Put me up on a stage in front of hundreds, speech in hand, and I’ll own it. Plonk me down in a room full of strangers, I’ll fake small talk so good you’ll think I’m an extrovert. Give me a tight deadline and I will work, work, work until I get it done. But if […]

You Should Take a Mental Health Day | rosie abigail

June 10, 2020.Reading time 9 minutes.

This is for the people who have burn out, or have mental health conditions, or are stressed, or who live and breath and sleep and exist, or everyone: start treating your mental health the same as you treat your physical health. I’ve had flare-ups of mental health conditions over the last four years, and that […]

Antidepressants and Me | rosie abigail

May 9, 2020.Reading time 7 minutes.

Salbutamol and Seretide for asthma, antihistamines and adrenaline for allergies, Codeine and Prednisolone for flare ups, and Sertraline for my brain. More specifically, Sertraline for chronic anxiety and clinical depression. Those are the medications that rattle around in my bag and go with me wherever I go. I’m kind of a package deal – “The […]