Happy Girl Winter: How to Overcome Seasonal Depressive Disorder
The Trivialisation of Mentally Ill Celebrities by the Media
Tabloids continued to conjure up salacious rumours and post personal reports on the stars’ lives. TV shows, magazines and social commentators would make light of the ongoing trauma of these women and brutally mock them. Instead of acknowledging that these women were being taken advantage of at the expense of their sanity, the media proceeded to harass them with their trademark joviality…
Why Aren’t Menstrual Pain and Mental Health Seen as a Valid Reason to Miss Work?
We wouldn’t think twice about missing work and events in general when it comes to the flu or other physical discomfort, so why do we overextend ourselves when it comes to our periods? People who menstruate deserve and quite simply should take time off when they are on their periods as they are a normal and natural thing we cannot control. The shame around periods just pressures us into pushing through the day rather than resting…
‘You Don’t Look Sick’: What is an Eating Disorder?
I didn’t look sick. At least, not to anyone who didn’t know me well. My weight hadn’t plummeted to dangerous lows; my skin wasn’t pale; my hair wasn’t falling out in chunks. I didn’t ‘look’ sick, so I convinced myself that I wasn’t…