Why I dropped out of university?!

Hello everybody! Hope you’re having a lovely day. So it’s a Monday and as some of you may know, on a Monday I write about whatever I fancy writing about that day! This month is extra special because, as it’s mental health awareness month, all of my posts on these days are going to be about my personal experience of mental illness. Everyone’s experience is obviously very different but I’m writing these posts in the hope to raise awareness about mental health issues and try to help people who have never experienced these issues to have an insight into what it’s like to have a mental illness. Hope you enjoy reading, if you want to ask anything please leave a comment below or send me an email on beccadoeslifethings@gmail.com. Let’s get started!

Just a little reminder…

Hello everybody! Hope you’re all having a wonderful day. I will be posting a delicious recipe for homemade fudge later on as part of my Tasty Thursday series so don’t worry about that! I just wanted to share with you some of the amazing responses I’ve had to my mental illness tag so far. They are truly insightful and it’s amazing to see so many people getting involved. I’ll link a load of the ones I’ve read so far down below so you can go check them out, please give them a read, I promise they’re all well worth it! If you have done this tag and I haven’t linked you, I’m so sorry!! Please comment with your link down below and I’ll check it out asap 🙂 Thank you to everyone who’s taken part, it feels amazing to be part of this group of people who are all trying to unite and kill the stigma surrounding mental illness, I’m so grateful to everyone who’s taken part so far and remember to spread the word so everyone who wants to do this can give it a go!

My original post – https://beccadoeslifethings.wordpress.com/2016/05/02/mental-illness-tag/

Therapybits – https://therapybits.com/2016/05/03/mental-illness-tag/ 

Hopenotharm – https://hopenotharm.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/mental-illness-tag/

Mycycleoflife – https://mycycleoflife.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/day-4-mental-illness-tag/

Storiesfromcemetries –  https://storiesfromcemeteries.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/mental-health-tag/

Wanderingprofessional left a great comment on my original posts which is linked above!

Brokedowndays – https://brokedowndays.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/mental-health-awareness-month-mental-illness-tag/

Hazeofwhat – https://hazeofwhat.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/haze-of-tags/

Writinginthewoodsblog – https://writinginthewoodsblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/04/questions-questions-so-many-questions/

Normalistoomainstream – https://normalistoomainstream.wordpress.com/2016/05/03/depressiondiaries-mental-illness-tag/

Insilencewesuffer has also started his own project to raise mental health awareness where you send answers to a few questions anonymously – love this idea, make sure to check this out! I’m definitely going to do this at the weekend, thank you so much for suggesting it 🙂 https://insilencewesuffer.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/mindfulness-me/

Sorry to anyone who I missed, like I said before please leave a link in a comment below and I’ll be sure to check it out. Thanks again for all of the support and bravery shown so far, let’s see how many people we can get to fill this tag out!

Lots of love,

Mental Illness Tag

Hello everybody!! How are you today, I hope you’re having a lovely day. I actually had a bit of a difficult weekend and it’s what inspired me to write this post for you today! It’s also mental health awareness month so every Monday this month I will be posting a blog about my mental health experience. The reason I had such a difficult weekend was because I experienced the stigma and discrimination that surrounds mental illness first hand. I heard things that some people from my uni course, which I’ve taken a year out of, have been saying about why I’m not there right now. The rumours range from ‘she’s just done really badly and wanted an excuse to get out of the year’ to ‘she’s clearly just weird.’ Just to clarify: neither of these are true!! Well I’m maybe a little weird…but weird people are always the best ones! Another thing I heard which astounded me is how people just dismissed my mental illness, comparing my depression to when they ‘have a down day’ or my anxiety to ‘being a bit nervous.’ Trust me, I wish it was just that!!