by Hegel Ordaz | Jun 18, 2021 | Mental Health, Personal Stories
The words loco and loca, meaning crazy, are broadly used in my community back home to describe people mostly in a favorable way. These are people who are naturally funny and think outside the box. Members of my community who are virtuous and full of life always seem...
by Mary Abzug | Oct 23, 2020 | Mental Health, Personal Stories, Women's Day
Blackness in Mental Health Today The 2020 Black Lives Matter protests that have followed the killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor, have shed a heavy light on the problem of racial inequality in America. While racial inequality is by no means a new issue...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Feb 16, 2020 | Blog, Personal Stories
Sometimes my skin doesn’t quite fit. I wriggle inside of it, like there’s some kind of alien being trying to get out. I look in a mirror and wonder who I am. I can be at home yet still feel lost; feel emptiness even with a full life. The safe zones that anchor me can...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Feb 5, 2020 | Blog, Mental Health, Personal Stories
Recently, whilst walking through town, I became temporarily dissociated. My physical presence felt detached from my surroundings and my senses shut down to the point of numbness. Nothing beyond my self felt real, and even the self felt curiously alien. WebMD describes...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Sep 17, 2019 | Mental Health, News, Personal Stories
Here in the UK we have a system called IAPT – Improved Access to Psychological Therapies. The waiting list is quite long, but, I decided to go along to see what it is all about and if the therapy could be helpful. So, I made the appointment and, initially my therapist...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Aug 21, 2019 | Mental Health, Personal Stories
Have you ever noticed the light as it falls across a garden or parkland? I mean really noticed, not just seen it, but felt it as every shadow taints the foliage, like an angel’s breath has whispered over the landscape, changing the tones; noticed how every sparkle of...
