World Mental Health Day 2022
If you know me, you will know that there’s absolutely no chance that I could pass up sharing some of my thoughts on World Mental Health Day, especially in the current climate. Despite having received my referral for Psychological Therapies back in July with the wait for my initial assessment not being until March 2023, I started private therapy this year, so this seems like a good topic for today. When I was diagnosed with Bipolar in 2018, things started to make a little bit more sense. I could recognise traits within myself after lots of research and I started some group therapy up in Durham, something which for someone like myself, I found exceptionally difficult, socially overwhelming, and of very little help. I tried to manage on just medication whilst I finished my second and third year at university which was much harder than I initially anticipated. This meant my mum had to go on a career break from work to help me cope, which eventually led to her leaving her profession in th