This is the first post on my new blog. I’m just getting this new blog going, so bare with me and be kind. I have suffered depression/anxiety as long as i can remember and also been diagnosed with PTSD.

I wanted to start this blog as not just some kind of out let for myself but in the hopes anyone suffering some kind of or any kind of mental illness. Come here and talk openly and judgement free from the people who think that it’s not real or something we can just change with sheer will power, or that we need ,want attention or use it as an excuse for our so called laziness or excuses for our behaviours.

Also to shed light on what it can be like for us living day by day inside our heads. Or what I like to call it (living in hell). Maybe we can use this to show loved ones what it’s like, and that it’s real, often we feel the same as each other in many ways. I talk to so many people with the same diagnosis as me and when they talk I feel like they are reading my mind and I just get it.

I want to explain over time what it’s like for myself to live with these illnesses and what it has been like to live with. How so many don’t believe it’s a real illness and the things I have had said to me, how it has effected me, how it’s made me think. For so long I have been made to feel like it’s something I should be embarrassed about or that I am either a drama queen, attention seeker or that it’s something I should just suck up and that’s it’s a shameful thing.

But I’m here to talk about it and no longer want to hide and show myself and other’s we are not alone. It’s ok and nothing to be ashamed of to talk about or ask for help. I lost my dad to this illness and we have lost so many, let’s try change it and stand strong for each other if nothing else. I am also struggling day by day and don’t want to be another statistic. Please feel free to follow and will post my next blog soon.

We need to stand together, fight the stigma around mental health and know that it’s ok to talk about it and you’re not alone.