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Share your experiences of mental ill health. Friends, family and carers too!
All additions are very welcome - just e-mail me anything you want to be included.

Are you angry? Looking to the future? Afraid? Have you recovered? Or 'just' feel a little crazy?

Everyone has a story to tell - Everyone should have a chance to tell it and be heard
experiences@madnotbad.co.uk

Note: Many of these may be triggering, but i'm leaving it up to you to judge what you feel comfortable with at the time. Take care xxx Rachel

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My So Called Life Dealing with grief, anger, self hate & your birthday 07/03/04
Demons Needing to cope in your own way, surviving 07/03/04
Today Was A Bad Day Feeling empty, alone and terrified 07/03/04
Let Me Sleep The devestating effect of not sleeping, a living hell 30/01/04
In The Beginning Some of my earlier experiences of mental distress 23/11/03
Forever Night Insomnia - a pretty word for a terrible thing 25/10/03
I Wish You Were Here Another night of grief and questions 25/10/03
Eating Disorder Anorexia & how other people people don't help 24/10/03
Behavious And Masks Are Me Hiding pain & self hate inside, no one else knows 03/09/03
Losing Myself Inside How i feel like i'm not really here anymore 27/08/03
The Little Things I Do When 'pulling your hair out' isn't just a glib saying 25/08/03
Sectioned The confusing experience of compulsary detention 11/08/03
Beginning To Bark One man's experiences of depression 11/08/03
Self Harm How it has became the enemy, her struggle to stop 29/07/03
Fearful Of Food Battling an obsession with food & binge eating 23/07/03
As He Walked Down The ... The nurses not helping with confusion over meds 02/06/03
He Sat In The Corner On The Ward, full of side effects & feeling invisible 02/06/03
Cutting How she started, and how it makes her feel now 02/06/03
Profile Of Aleyn An interview about a service user's experiences 24/04/03
Hard_Wired - Mad Thinking Explaining how it feels when my thoughts go weird 24/04/03
It's Good To Talk Going from silent self hating, to opening up 28/03/03
Relapsing Again A letter trying to explain what was happening to me 16/02/03
Picking & Pulling Other forms of self harm - my struggle against them 12/01/03
My First Voices How it felt the first time I heard my 'voices' talking 12/01/03
Brain Chemicals or Trauma Why am I ill? Looking for my own answers 10/12/02
Tales From The Front (43) Creative writing: escaping the ward 23/11/02
Panic Stations Me, my anxiety and trying to go shopping 23/11/02
It Hurts Feeling the grief and loss of my friend in a big way 17/11/02
Out Of Touch (And out of my mind) diconnected and not loving it 17/11/02
What Makes Me Smile? Making a list of the things that make me happy 15/11/02
Down In A Hole 3 little looks into what depression was like for me 11/11/02
Thank You For The Music How i got into writing and how it helps 02/11/02
Alone, Without You Questions that i can't answer right now (it hurts) 01/11/02
The Aftermath Feeling weird after no sleep - asking why 14/10/02
Haullicinations Remembering a very bad time in hospital 08/10/02
I Cut Trying to explain what it was like & how i felt 01/10/02
Not Now. Not Ever On the verge of relapse. Frightened. 20/09/02
My Last Day In Hospital (well, one of them) ... trying to find some humour 19/09/02
The Rollercoaster My descent into 'madness' - via uni 10/09/02
     
   
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