I saw a post on facebook today that said that The Blackdog tribe was looking for people to write a guest blog for their site. Now me being me thought ‘Why not’ and sent them an email saying I was interested. They’ve asked me about myself and what I would be happy to write about…poor woman probably didn’t know what she was in for when she asked me that!
“Ohhh it’s like a job interview! hmmmm well I’m 28 from Yorkshire. I work as a support worker for adults with learning difficulties part time and love it (most of the time!). I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety since I was a child and after being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis 4 years ago it all came to a head and I finally went to ask for help when my MS nurse pushed me in the GP’s direction. I was diagnosed with an adjustment disorder but after some time in a psych ward they also said I showed borderline personality traits though they didn’t explain it was a disorder all by itself and I’m now being referred back to psych to find out what on earth I can do about it lol. I write about a lot of different things from how I cope with day to day life, work etc to past experiences and how I got through them though that’s mostly to try and organise those memories in my own head when they take over. I’m at the point now where I don’t want to have to hide my problems from people and my blog is a way of trying to make sure I can talk about it.
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wow! that was great learning more about you. Of course you know my opinion, Write about your relationship with your dog! 😉
Lol I guessed you would go for that one! a lot of people seem to like that idea 😛
So before I can give my feedback, I have a question of my own. I’m unfamiliar with Blackdog Tribe, could you give me a link to their site?
http://www.blackdogtribe.com/ It sometimes runs a little slow but they do cover pretty much all aspects of mental health and some of my friends have found the support there brilliant xx
Awesome, I’ll have a look!
Personally, I’d like to hear about your dog and how he gave you a reason to live. I love stories about good people / animals having gigantic impacts on people’s lives… But I don’t know if that’s just my preference…. xx
It’s looking like that might be the majority vote so far! xx
I’d like to read C myself. Although one about your dog would probably be most popular, I’d probably be voting for the dog but that my cat has destroyed so much stuff today that I’m in a mood with the animal kingdom.
Uh oh the kitten has been misbehaving! I have those days with Toby believe me lol and he’s at least 7yrs old so past the chewing and scratching and defecating everywhere stage 😛
Oh I love this post, it is nice to know more about you! I am a pet person so I go with B, but all of them would be worth reading! xx
Thankyou 🙂 I think some of the info has leaked through in posts but I’ve never really done a ‘this is me!’ post lol. Hmmm B is what I was leaning towards too 😛 xx
Nice to know so much about you. I also have MS and depression both for the last umpteen years, so I can relate to your post. Why limit yourself? Write all of them! I’d be personally interested in (d). I wonder in my case which came first?
It’s a real chicken and egg situation a lot of the time! I know I’ve had mental health issues my whole life but the MS really made things awful to the point of being unbearable. I think a lot of MSers end up seeing someone from liason psychiatry at some point or other which isn’t surprising when you look at what we put up with! Hmmm I think I will write them all and see which one turns out best 🙂
My MS inspires me to do a lot of writing about MS.