Depression

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The following posts include the tag "Depression":

How Writing Saved My Life

by Mike Simpson 458 words

Yes, I know, it’s an over-melodramatic and clickbait-y title. But it is definitely true that writing about my experiences enabled me to process what I’d been through and allowed me to finally recover after years of struggling with depression, anxiety and insomnia.

My Backstory

by Mike Simpson 307 words

I became a father in April 2020, a few weeks into the UK’s first COVID-19 lockdown. The challenges of being a new parent and continuing to hold down a job during the chaos and uncertainty led to a decline in my mental health and, ultimately, to burnout and an anxiety attack.

Bananas

by Dave Horsfall 76 words

A banana is an edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus Musa.