13 Reasons Why (stylised as TH1RTEEN R3ASONS WHY) is an American television series based on the 2007 novel Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher and adapted…
[Repost] Common Mental Illnesses A-Z
Remember: mental illness is a flaw in chemistry, not character. It’s important to know that it’s normal to feel some of the different symptoms associated with mental…
Aspirations
Today’s the third last day of university life for me, and I have successfully accomplished the task of befriending the resident cat at school. Nothing school…
Mental Health And Its Importance
Mental health: A state of well-being in which the individual realises his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can…
Official Launch!
Welcome to Winding Through The Willows! This is a site dedicated to raising awareness for not just mental illness, but mental health and self-care too. Amongst…
Spirituality and Meaning Making
Sometimes I think: I don’t understand how a person who believes in God can simultaneously have a chronic mental illness, or stay embittered in past hurts.…
Spectrum
[Spectrum: Band of colours formed from a beam of light (1670s); from Latin, literally ‘image, apparition’ (1610s); word origin, spec(ere) ‘to look at, see’ (1605)]
Coping with coping
Writing a post on coping strategies does strike me as coming full circle. I started my mental health journey relying very much on distractions and…
[Repost] We need to stop telling people to ‘go for a run’ to fix their depression
Anyone with any form of mental illness has heard it. An entirely well-meaning bit of advice. A genuine attempt to help. ‘You should go for…
Mental Illness: Commonly misused terms
Mental illness is a term that seems to be appearing often in the media now. On television, in the cinema, on the news, you hear people…