Tag - family

Against a pair of large open palms, a small child and a person with long hair face away from each other.

Dear ex-therapist, when I say one thing, I don’t mean my mother

A person with black cropped hair sits at a table painting. On the canvas is a painted moth. In the background, more moths flutter around them and we see a bed, a lamp, paintings on the wall and the night sky through a large window.

Why I call myself a schizophrenist

Invisible knife: Living with misophonia

Growing old with Moy Moy

‘An end without an end’: Finding my way to myself as a person living with quiet borderline personality disorder

A woman wearing black sits at a cafe desk. A black and white picture hangs on the green wall behind her. To the right, there are plants and lanterns.

Why mental illness, for me, is about relationships, relationships, relationships

In a room with yellow walls, a young woman sits at her desk and types on her computer keyboard.

When you’re very, very tired, you can’t throw your tired away

Under shiny disco lights, a man dressed in red holds the hand of a woman dressed in green. The woman is dancing with complete abandon, her head tipped back. Around them, indistinguishable figures dance.

The love story that wasn’t

The illustration is divided into three panels against a bright red background. The first panel has a green and orange coloured bird cage. The second panel has a woman dressed in green with yellow and orange flowers on her left as she smells the yellow flower. The third panel has a woman dressed in a yellow and orange salwar-kameez, riding a blue bicycle as she looks lovingly at three, seated orange-coloured dogs.

My family colluded to have me put in a mental health facility. This is the story of how I survived.

Two figures with their back to us are embracing each other lovingly. They are surrounded by circles of bright colours – shades of yellow and red. The text on the image reads 'The Best of the #SexDis Blog 2016'.

The Best of the Sexuality and Disability Blog 2016