Mental Health

-+*Time is a bitch isn’t she? So sneaky and underhanded, making you think there is so much of her and then changing tack half way and deciding that there isn’t enough of her to go around. When I was out jogging the other day I had one of those feeling memories, you know the ones?…

-+*I had a friend visit last weekend. She, like me, is aged in her mid-40s, is a working Mum and has type 1 diabetes. She was telling me that she had started to suffer with anxiety or panic attacks and that her doctor had put her on medication for it. Not surprisingly her diabetes control…

-+*Yesterday I had an appointment at the Dentist. Groan. Yes, it was just a checkup & clean, but I did end up with a new filling as well. My dental appointment had been delayed by about 6 weeks, due to a month long virus that had also resulted in the cancelling of appointments with my…

-+*Maybe it’s because it’s getting to winter and I’m getting ‘middle of the year’ syndrome when I need something happening, to excite me. Otherwise every day seems to go so much slower. I have always wondered if it’s just me. It’s not that I’m not content with everything, I just crave so much more. I…

-+*I was feeling tired last night, a little virusey, but also incredibly happy as I munched on a carrot while simultaneously cooking dinner and balancing on a chair looking in the medicine cupboard for some cold and flu Echinacea and Horseradish tablets, basked in the late afternoon Autumn sun shining in through the window, when…