Mental Health

This is where you will find all my articles and op-ed’s around mental health

2022

It’s Hard to get out of “Work Mode” When it’s Your Life – but I’m Trying for The Unwritten, June 22

How Getting Sober Enabled Me to Confront My Mental Health Issues for Verywell Health, June 22

IWD2022: Disabled women have to be strong all year. We want to be soft too for The iPaper, March 22

2021

Living With Undiagnosed Chronic Pain Is Hard, But Please Don’t Give Up for Healthline, August 21

It’s Okay If Women Don’t Want To Share Their Trauma for Huffpost UK, March 21

I got PTSD after almost dying from sepsis for Metro UK, March 21

2020

Disabled People Are Anxious About Returning To Work. Do Not Forget Us for HuffPost, September 20

I Could Only Embrace Being a Writer After I Got Sober for The Temper, September 20

The Pandemic is Putting Mental Health Care at Risk for Bella Caledonia, June 20

How Almost Dying from Sepsis Changed My Relationship with Shaving for Folks at Pillpack, May ’20

Emotional Abuse Isn’t Over When You Walk Out. It’s Still Impacting Me Now for Huffpost (published anonymously), March 20

I Chose To Have A Hysterectomy, But It Still Hurts That I Can’t Have Kids for Metro UK, March 20

2018 and Earlier

I Spoke Up and Got Help With My Mental Health – But The NHS Failed Me for iNews, September 18

How Chronic Illness And Mental Health Are Inextricably Linked For Metro UK, May 18

An Open Letter to my Depression for Metro UK, September 17

It’s Okay To Not Want To ‘Keep Calm And Carry On’ for iNews, June 17

The Finality of Hysterectomy for Ask Me About My Uterus, January 17

The Day I Didn’t Die for Femsplain, January 17

You’re My Thinspo for Femsplain, June 16