Author Archives: Funny Little Mind

My journey with BDD / Obsession with nose

I wanted to do an update on my BDD, mainly because it really helps me to write about it. The last few months have been quite a journey for me, slowly learning how to navigate these anxieties around my appearance, … Continue reading

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Body Dysmorphic Disorder / Hating how you look

What the heck has happened to WordPress since I last used it. Confusing much?! Anyway, I needed to write about my experience of Body Dysmorphia or, to put it more simply, an unrelenting anxiety disorder associated with ones appearance. I … Continue reading

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Anxiety from Loneliness

I’ve felt lonely at many points in my life but since lockdown hit, it’s been perpetuated tenfold. For me I think it’s been something that has been lurking around for a few years and it’s only now that I felt … Continue reading

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It’s been a while….

I think it’s been a year or more since I last came on to my blog to write anything. I feel like I’ve been living life, and feeling so good, that I haven’t felt a need I suppose. But there’s … Continue reading

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Good Friends are like Hot Chocolate for the Soul

The journey to a happy healthy mental state is a slow, ambling one, one that can take years, perhaps a lifetime, to refine. It’s an intriguing exploration with no destination in mind, allowing you to delve into life as if it’s a … Continue reading

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Shut Your Facebook

When we use the word ‘addiction’ we imagine drink, drugs, smoking, gamboling; things that lead to what we call “serious health issues”. But being addicted to something is simply experiencing the impulse or desire to do something even if, ideally, you would … Continue reading

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Two Year Anxiversary – Riding the Unplanned Life Diversion

Like what I did there??! So I’m sitting in the office pretending to work, whilst counting down the minutes before I can get the hell outta here and get on a train home to the Devonshire countryside where my parents … Continue reading

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Cos’ you’re just a boy…and you don’t understand…that I’m mentally unstable…

Yes! A boy! Men. Relationships. Dating situations. What a HEAD F*CK?! I mean, could there be more uncertainty packed into one single situation?! Not only is the entire situation based on emotions, unless you’re part of some kind of arranged … Continue reading

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Treasure the tiny pieces of your jigsaw

I have had some lovely comments of appreciation lately, either through Paul David or friends of friends, and it inspired me to write again. I haven’t written anything creative in a little while. Let’s see what comes along today. I seem to … Continue reading

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On Daydreaming

Originally posted on Life Lived:
Forget colouring books and yoga. What happened to the practice of good old-fashioned daydreaming? We all remember times at school when the teacher’s voice became no more than background noise to our own imaginings and…

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