Please read with understanding and help this brave woman – a survivor
I’VE WRITTEN A BOOK!
Posted in emotional health, Hope, learning to love yourself again, rebuilding your life, recovery, Uncategorized with tags #hope, #inspiration, #life-story, #personalgrowth, #personaljourney, #recovery, #self-esteem, autobiography, mental-health, new-book on April 20, 2017 by Karen unrueI am a master procrastinator.
There are only two things I have followed through on in my life.
(I’m exaggerating slightly but it makes for a better story.)
One of those was my pregnancy.
nature gave me no option lol.
The other one was completing this book.
It took blood, sweat, and tears, as well as enthusiastic coaching from a support network to ensure both products were birthed properly.
But I managed it.
So I introduce to you my newly born, but strangely named,
“BLUE JELLYFISH SYNDROME”
I could not be a prouder parent.
In this book you will read how my mental illness,
COMPLEX PTSD,
developed and how over the years I learnt, with the help of my community mental health team
and, eventually, a great therapist,
to manage my symptoms.
It has been a very challenging journey indeed,
and as I’m sure many of you will appreciate,
I felt like giving up at times.
Mostly this book is about
HOPE
and how you can find and maintain hope while living with a mental illness
so you can
SURVIVE AND THRIVE.
My hope is that as you read it my journey will help you along your journey a little
DE-press-ON is now a WHIS Ambassador!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2017 by Karen unrueI know Colin and this man with his own mental health expert and innovative approach to recovery will be an asset to this wonderful organisation
Coming Out Is Always A Work In Progress
Posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2017 by Karen unrueBloody brilliant – you’re right it’s the one question – among a myriad of curious questions, that no one asks. You write beautifully
It’s OK.
Posted in Uncategorized on March 14, 2017 by Karen unrueI love it when someone realises there’s no shame in having a mental illness and begins to accept and like who they sre
1 in 4 people will be affected by mental illness. That’s a statistic that we hear thrown about a lot. We’re all just part of another statistic that no one really pays much attention to. Yet when you think about it, reeeaaally think about it, it’s amazing just how many people will become affected by one of the least treated illnesses in the world.
Next time you’re in a group of people, look around and pick out 4 in your head at random. Based on the statistic, one of these people is, or will be, in some way affected by mental health (obviously you’re not Derren Brown reading minds, it’s just an exercise).
So what does this tell us? Well mental illness is more common than people would care to think about. In one way or another, mental illness is affecting someone we love in some way, and more often…
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Loving Someone With PTSD
Posted in Uncategorized on March 13, 2017 by Karen unrueWhat an inspiring, hope filled and beautiful perspective- I have CPTSD and I love what you’ve written
Understand My Problems
Posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2017 by Karen unrueMental health issues impact our sons, brothers, fathers as they experience war and then return home. Here is one such powerful story
Goodbye you
Posted in Uncategorized on March 2, 2017 by Karen unrueSo inspiring it needs reading more than once
Since my anxiety diagnosis, I’ve often felt a sense of grief for the person I once was. A confident, bright, optimistic guy with a good group of friends, very likeable and really approachable. He was cool. Quite a popular person who seemed to know everyone, go so many places and be prepared to face anything.
Anxiety, however, didn’t seem to like him, and over the space of around 12 months would chip away at him, making him crumble into a dust, and disappear with the wind. This made me sad. I had lost someone, I’d become reclusive, quiet, lost friends, I was irritable, unsociable and a shadow of the lad who no longer existed.
One new year I decided ‘that’s it, I’m going to get the old me back’. I sought therapy, I pushed myself so hard and powered through all of my fears over the space of 4 years…
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It’s Happening: I’m Going to Rehab
Posted in Uncategorized on February 17, 2017 by Karen unrueFacing our issues is terrifying but it’s worse to stay where we are and continue to be in and cause pain. This is a step this terrified woman is taking because she cares about her life and those in it more than the bottle
Fuck. This is a hard post to write.
The cursor is blinking at me.
What next?
This blank screen is sitting across from me, like a cynical friend, eyebrow raised, waiting for me to tell them the truth. Wanting the whole story.
And….?
Fuck it.
I’m going to rehab.
There. I said it. I’m doing it. I’m going.
February 21. A week from tomorrow.
I chatted with the intake specialist last night. I’m calling her at noon to complete the registration, put in my deposit, and make it real.
I fell asleep crying last night. Damn Adele on the Grammy’s pushed me over the edge. Hubs and I were having a rare talk, and he wants me to go. He prefaced it with “Please, don’t misinterpret this, but we need some time apart. To figure out who we are and what we want.”
So I’m going to rehab. For a month.
I…
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Amputees Who Lift
Posted in Uncategorized on February 11, 2017 by Karen unrueINSPIRATION when life deals us cards we could never have imagined holding in our hand. Please read this for a mood lift processed through pain, grit and determination