Five good reasons why people don’t talk about their mental health – Guest post by Carolyn

Carolyn from Take Five will be writing a guest post specifically for Day in the Life shortly, in the meantime she asked if I would share this post with you. Pleas hop over and check out her blog ‘Take Five‘ after you’ve finished reading.

You may have seen TV adverts recently to raise awareness of how we treat people dealing with mental ill-health. Here’s my take on the top five reasons why people don’t talk more freely about the issues involved.

ROW80 2012 – Picking up the pieces

So I am far from ‘better’ if that is even a possibility, well it’s not my therapist said as much I don’t have an ‘illness’ I can recover from, it’s a personality disorder, the best I can ever hope for is ‘control and management’ but anyway…

I’m in a slightly better place than I was for my last post, able to ‘do’ things again and focus a bit. To be honest as normal I just have to pick up the pieces and carry on regardless… as best I can at least, so I have made a little headway on my goals in the latter half of this week, let’s take a look…

Photography Challenge – Community, Subject 3

I set myself a new challenge as part of my ROW80 goals for this round, the challenge was:

Photography – Approach 1 stranger, photograph them and blog about it – another challenge, to get me out of the house and meeting people – should be interesting! hopefully one a week, but not sure yet – still a new idea!

Now that I have my theme ‘Community’ I am heading out each week to find someone new to photograph and write about, here is this weeks subject…

Flash Fiction Friday – Photo prompt

I’m quite enjoying these flash fiction prompts from L.S.Engler and a few other ROW80 members have been following our lead now including Darlene Steelman and Eden Mabee. This prompt was actually from a couple of weeks back now (I had already got a number of posts scheduled for my blog and couldn’t fit this post in until today).

Any how, here’s my latest piece of flash fiction – I wonder if this will be another ‘creepy’ one hehe

Poem …Love? – A guest post by Voice of Autumn

Today I would like to thank Voice of Autumn for this lovely poem she has written as guest piece to share with you. Please pop by and check out her blog: Lost in the Winterness

I hope you enjoy it!