Author Archives: Annabel Wood

I’ve spent lots of time figuring out what can help my anxiety and depression, I like trying to do something, something with tangible rewards so I can say to myself ‘yes I feel like sh*t but look what I’ve done’. I’ve found that sometimes it’s a loooooong dog walk (that’s really rewarding but high effort),Continue reading “Help-yo-self”

We’ve all met them, the ‘you have anxiety? Don’t worry so much?’ Or the ‘you’re depressed? Well stop being miserable’ I don’t know why they can’t understand it! Being such an empathetic myself I always put myself in other peoples shoes and feel how they feel, so I don’t understand why people are so ignorantContinue reading “Battling with non sufferers”

I’ve tried many times to explain to people how I feel not for sympathy but so they can know why I act or look the way I do. The one thing my mum always says is that I don’t look depressed (lol) so my mental health must be good right now. The problem with meContinue reading “Describing how I feel”

When things are bad, they say people are around you to help you don’t they? Well my mum is so self centred she can’t even begin to fathom how to deal with me, my friends all have their own lives too. The ones I do reach out to just criticise me, how am I meantContinue reading “How?!”