It’s having an affinity with someone. If people have an affinity with you through your book, that’s amazing. That’s so much what I felt like I had with Emma Forrest, with Matt Haig… all of these authors. Gordon began her career as an intern for the Daily Express, writing occasional feature articles for the newspaper. She then began writing a youth-oriented column for the Sunday Express, before writing for The Daily Telegraph 's teen supplement in 2000. [6] In 2001, Gordon joined the Daily Mirror gossip column known as The 3AM Girls. [2] After the Mirror, Gordon resumed writing for The Daily Telegraph. You are that flame. And you need to do everything you can to keep that pilot light of self-esteem going. You want keep it on. That pilot light of self-esteem is the thing that is going to protect you from the mental-health issues that will try and sweep in, stealthily, like the slow seasonal change of winter, leaving you horribly exposed.

Just last year, Hawkins opened up about his struggle with drugs, having spent a week in a coma in 2001 after an accidental overdose. “I was partying in London one night, and I mistakenly did something and it changed everything,” he told Kerrang! magazine. “I believed the bull***t myth of live hard and fast, die young. I’m not here to preach about not doing drugs, because I loved doing drugs, but I just got out of control for a while and it almost got me. I was heading down a road that was going to lead to even worse paths.”Let Down Your Hair is a modern day reimagining of the beloved fairy tale Rapunzel. This book revolves around social media in the modern world, and the main character’s journey as she dev If you’ve been with us from the beginning you’ll know that Bare Biology was born out of my own mental health struggles. Our new product Mindful is specifically designed to make it easier for people suffering to find the product they need. This month, I interviewed journalist and mental health advocate Bryony Gordon as part of Liberty’s January Reset campaign. As expected, Bryony was a bundle of positive energy, knowledge, and smiles. We had a good natter about our mental health and the benefits of physical exercise for a happier mind. If you didn’t manage to make the event, here are some of the highlights… I do remember as teenager reading it, that description of what it feels like to be depressed, which is probably the first time I’d read something and thought, oh, hang on. Obviously I wasn’t in a mental institution, having electroconvulsive therapy, but it was around that time I started having any kind of awareness that perhaps something wasn’t quite right. And an awareness that perhaps this was something other people went through as well. We often receive calls from those in similar circumstances because CAMHS is so stretched,” she says. “As hard as it is when you have been told to wait a long time for the help that a child needs, we would encourage this grandmother to maintain a relationship with CAMHS. It is important to keep a log of all the interactions you have with CAMHS and other services, so that agreed actions can be documented and followed up.” I think it is very empowering. She goes through all this terrible stuff, then at the end [spoiler alert:] she shoves a cake in her husband’s face. It’s all about her coming up. It’s really important to have humour.

Not an actual elephant, of course, more a metaphorical one, a familiar weight that bears down on me as soon as I open my eyes to the day. It’s been there now for… how long? Time has lost all meaning to me, in truth. Meanwhile, a recent study by Barnardo’s in Scotland found that 94 per cent of children were more worried or stressed now than before the pandemic.M: Yes, it is. I’ve had OCD since I was 9 and then I got very bad postnatal depression after my second child. I have OCD and am in recovery from addiction, but untreated, mental illness snowballs into a million other mental illnesses. I feel like my brain is wired wrong; it doesn’t want the best for me. Left to my own devices, my brain would like me dead. When I am feeling “wrong”, it’s like I am the wrong person, doing the wrong things, feeling the wrong things. I don’t fit. I’m not wired right. So I have to be vigilant. I felt very naked having my words on my face. It felt very uncomfortable. But it’s a wonderful way of taking the shame and fear out of mental illness. Nathaniel Cole