Since reducing my dose of Citalopram I’ve been doing really well. My CBT has helped me deal with issues before they become too big. Yesterday, the feelings of fear and inadequacy came back. I addressed them and today, I’m much better.
I am recovering.
CBT taught me is that my anxiety isn’t without cause. I thought I was just wired wrong but actually I was refusing to acknowledge the things I was anxious about and address them.
My worries would stare at me in the night from dark corners.
Now I carry a torch.
Do the thing you’re scared of and it loses its power over you. It took me 41 years and therapy to work that out.
I am absolutely determined to get my mind working in a way that is helpful to me and I’m prepared to put in the work.
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek
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POETRY
Let Your Wrinkles Twinkle
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By Claire Lucia-Wright
Post date
21st February 2020
Like the wearing down of pages of a much-loved dogeared book our faces tell the stories of our lives.
For love may come or love may go and joy or pain abound, but each furrow speaks the tale that we survived.
Soft creases in a silk scarf over time, becoming deeper, every smile and every worry leaves it’s line.
Every moment we have lived and each adventure we embarked on placed their stories on our face, so let them shine.
Know that aging is a privilege that not everyone is given, so rejoice and wear your grey hair like a crown.
Then every wrinkle on your face becomes a radiant badge of honour for each time you got back up when you were down.
There is beauty in each blemish, there is magic in each mark and such wisdom you have learned along your way.
So let each wrinkle twinkle, smile and let each crease be loved because you’ve earned it with each passing of the day.
Claire Lucia-Wright
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MENTAL HEALTH
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SELF CARE
Important Announcement
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By Claire Lucia-Wright
Post date
19th November 2019
Okay, I need to write this because this is important. To anyone currently living with and battling with a mental health condition… You are awesome. You don’t feel it, but you are. Each day you are holding your head above water by whatever means available to you.
You are no less inspiring than the most motivational of motivational speakers.
You are no less strong than the strongest of weight lifters.
You areano less important than the most prominent VIP and no less valid than any other human being on this planet!
Having a mental health crisis is not a sign of weakness or failure, it is a symptom of an illness that you can, with the right support, manage and recover from. If that means medication, take it! If it means changing your lifestyle, do it. If it means lessening your contact with toxic people, bid them a hearty buh-bye and start taking your life in a better direction, one the serves you.
Let go of “should”. I should be able to cope better, I should be dealing with this better, I should be happy. You are where you are. Be gentle with yourself and know that with support you can get to the place you want to be, but please, do not feel ashamed of where you are now.
Our brains are a part of our body and there is no distinction between an ill body and and ill mind so stop beating yourself up!
If your body isn’t getting enough vitamin D, take a supplement. If your brain isn’t getting enough seratonin, get some from your doctor and let yourself feel better.
If your shoulder is strained from over use rest it. If your mind is strained from prolonged stress, rest it!
If you’re injured in a car accident, physiotherapy can help you put your body back together. If your mind is injured through trauma, taking therapy could help you put your mind back together.
There are so many causes of anxiety, depression and mental illness but I’m telling you now, being a failure is not one of them!
So please, KEEP GOING. I promise you are worth it.
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