Posts tagged Mental Health
3 days remain to support our crowdfunder.

Just three more days remain to support the Kickstarter - not only can you get a copy of the magazine for yourself but your support enables us to distribute free copies of the magazine around London. If you agree that mental health resources should be accessible for all, then it’d be great if you show your support for the magazine:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anxietyempire/anxiety-empire-magazine

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Anxiety Empire is going into print.

Anxiety Empire is going into print. Each quarter we will explore a different macro system of society - such as work, language, optimism - and how this impacts the mental health of us as individuals. The launch edition looks at the world of media, and we are examining this from different critical, creative and caring perspectives together with authors, artists, activists, journalists, academics, poets and media industry professionals.

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How I Went From Burnout To Building My Own Business

Because I had a depression, I started talking about how I was feeling while I was cutting hair... actually I kept thinking I should shut up, because I was so used to not talking about my feelings and I was embarrassed to tell people how I was feeling. But, to my surprise, people didn’t mind at all. In fact they started telling me how they were, and what was going on for them in their lives. And by the end of the haircut, interestingly we both felt better. So it was like a one on one self-help group situation.

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Taking life one day at a time

When I meet people I like to ask “How are you doing today?” rather than “How are you doing?” as I think it takes away the pressure for the person to find a “satisfying” answer to what can otherwise be an overwhelming question. Especially for people with anxiety like me, when someone asks how I am doing, I immediately panic and try to find a non-upsetting answer. For me this small difference in phrasing makes a huge difference for me.

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7 Truths About Living With Depression and Body Dysmorphia

In primary school I would often spend lunch time play on the bench sitting on my own -  I would get high anxiety thinking about my mum working nights, being scared of going home to my dad, not wanting to play football because I was no good at it, wanting to play hopscotch with the girls but knowing that was not really where I belonged either and the boys would frown upon that... and one game of hopscotch was not worth a week of being teasing about it. Describing how I feel today is like how I used to feel sitting on that bench. I’m watching from afar, wanting to join in, but I’m too worried, and too scared to even look up, because I may look too fem, too ugly, too awkward, too short, and too unable.

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