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Being a Student with Anxiety and Depression

by - 11:36
This is what it's like. I can't speak for everyone, because I only know my own experience... but being a student with anxiety and depression is hard.  I mean, there are definitely benefits, like no one's really going to question it if you spent all day in bed or if all you're eating...

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Moving Back to London When You Hate London and You Have Anxiety

by - 06:52
I know, right? What a great title.  So short, so catchy, so succinct, so to the point. I haven't written much about moving back to London, because it wasn't really an especially easy transition. One reason for this is because I low-key hate London.  I hate how many people there are, I hate...

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Ball Gowns, Hospital Gowns and Lots of Scans

by - 11:44
The title kind of rhymes... like it kind of works, right?  Whatever, you didn't come here for the cool title, you came here for the juicy cancer gossip. Don't worry, I got you. So, here it is: Prom. No one enjoys their prom, right?  I mean we're all disappointed at the end and...

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Learning the Hard Way that Coming Off Antidepressants for Absolutely No Reason is a Bad Idea

by - 14:41
Okay - I admit it - I'm an idiot.  Hardly news, and yeah I know I'm not literally an idiot - I was an A grade student through most of school and now I study at one of the top... idk 25? 30? universities in the world - so yeah, I know, I...

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Post Travel 'Blues'

by - 06:41
Okay, so I actually wrote this post three weeks after I came home from six-ish months in America... so like, July sometime, I guess.  I decided to post it now because clearly I wasn't in the state to post it at the time, or probably even think about it the next morning -...

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On point, on fleek, on... antidepressants...

by - 22:08
(Okay, so I spilled soy sauce on one of them and also the pharmacist spelled my name "JAMIMA", proving that even when I take measures to make myself better and follow my doctors advice, I am still a mess.) May is Mental Health Awareness month and I have never been more aware of...

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I'm Fine, I Just Can't Breathe and I'm Having Chest Pains, Don't Be Dramatic.

by - 00:08
The few weeks after my first hospital appointment were weird.  There wasn't much I could do, it can take a few weeks to be diagnosed, so I just went to school and acted normal - okay, not normal, I was a complete weirdo at school, but I just carried on with my life....

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I'm Just a Little Bit Cray and it's Totally Okay.

by - 23:49
You may have heard about the Heads Together campaign Prince Harry and The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge launched last year... pretty sure it was last year.  It's basically just this whole big campaign to normalise discussing mental health and letting people know that IT'S TOTALLY OKAY TO BE CRAY.  Okay, so that's...

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