If you don't feel in the mood to read you can just sit back, press play and watch the video instead. Are you interested in everything mental health? Or do you live with or know someone who lives with mental health illness? If so please pull up a seat, get nice and comfortable and join me on Cassie Talks - Mental Health. Whether you have stumbled here by accident or have intended to drop by I would like to thank you for your time. My name is Cassie and I am a mental health blogger and advocate from the UK. I have lived experience of mental illness with a diagnoses of Bipolar Disorder, Emotional Unstable Personality Disorder and Anxiety. I am so passionate about raising awareness of mental health and mental illness and do so by blogging in hope it will help those who maybe struggling right now to realise they are not alone, to encourage people to speak out and reach out and to stand up and be counted whilst raising awareness to help end the stigma which so many of us experien...
If you don't feel in the mood to read you can just sit back, press play and watch the video instead. Does the following seem familiar? "So many things to do and so little time to do it in and my mind is racing. So many sounds, sights and smells to take in and it overloads my senses. Internal and external chatter all around me and I start to feel discombobulated. I rush about trying to get my daily activities achieved while trying to self-regulate. I have a headache, my hearts pacing, and anxiety starts to set in. The feelings of overwhelm are overtaking my soul as I scramble around trying to find a way out". If you can relate to one of my experiences I have just described, you may be struggling with feelings of overwhelm. Everyone from time to time feels overwhelmed, especially in this fast paced society we live in. However when living with neurological differences, a mental illness, going through difficult or stressful times, or indeed if you are a highly sensitive ...