Tag: illness
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CHRONICALLY ILL MUM GUILT
Good morning and welcome to a new week! Today I have another in the Mental Health Monday series and I have decided to write a bit about Mum guilt and how being chronically ill can often add to these feelings. Some women, like me, are chronically ill for as long as they remember and this…
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SHIELDING EASING, ANXIETY RISING
Good morning and welcome back to Mental Health Monday on The Spoonie Mummy. Today in England, the restrictions begin to ease for the people who have been shielding since March. While exciting, these changes are also happening very quickly and have caused feelings of worry and anxiety to rise in many. I thought I would…
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CHRONIC ILLNESS AND LONELINESS
Ad | Paid Collaboration Well hello there Monday. Today I am working with the Chronic Warrior Collective and Chronic Illness Bloggers for my Mental Health Monday post. I have written before about loneliness but today I wanted to talk about it with a focus on the chronic illness community, and what the Chronic Warrior Collective…
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WHERE CAN I FIND SUPPORT FOR MY MENTAL HEALTH?
Knowing where to turn when you feel like you need support can be scary. It can also be mind boggling about where you start. Hopefully in this post, I can help you find access to what you need. The initial step is the hardest, but I can promise you, that the relief you feel once…
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Why Do I Feel So Much More Tired When I am Doing Less In Lockdown?
Good afternoon and welcome back to this week’s Mental Health Monday post. This week I am covering something which I feel is very relevant to what many are experiencing in lockdown at the moment, but is also something people with chronic illness experience on a regular basis. There have been so many parallels drawn between…
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Giving Ourselves Permission to Feel our Feelings
Welcome to the first Mental Health Monday post. As you all know, I am currently doing my degree in psychology and aim to become a psychotherapist working in particular, with people diagnosed with chronic illnesses. I really want to start helping people with my knowledge and also from my experiences as an ‘owner’ of several…
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Keeping Sane In Self-Isolation
So how is everyone doing? We are now on day 4 of isolation and so far we are managing to keep busy and (pretty) sane. There have been many parallels drawn on social media between self-isolation and life with chronic illness. I get it – we spend much of our time indoors, we cannot always…
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How To Recover When You Have Pushed Yourself Too Far
It seemed a good idea to write this post now, as I am sure many of us with chronic illnesses have pushed ourselves a little bit further than we should over the festive period. I have certainly had a busy couple of weeks with lots of driving, family get togethers as well as having the…
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