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With this
year’s theme for World Mental Health Day being: ‘making mental health and
wellbeing for all, a global priority;’ I thought about my own priorities.
Initially I thought about how much they had changed from being at my most
poorly to being in recovery, but then I realised that actually, they had
changed – almost a dizzying number of times – at various stages throughout the
entirety of my mental health journey. My blog, however, has always remained so
high on that list of priorities that I thought I’d write a piece that purely focuses
on the priorities which, I believe, are essential for when you’re blogging
about mental health…
There are a number of factors which I believe have contributed to I’m NOT Disordered’s popularity and success, but the one I feel has been most key is that from Day One, I have focused on myself, and the impact blogging has on my life. I mean, for so long the main priority in relation to myself, was centred around self-harm and suicide; and I was utterly convinced that I didn’t deserve for anything ‘nice’ to happen to me. But then, after over six months in a psychiatric hospital, I finally began to see that I was worthy of doing whatever I could to maintain my safety and keep my mental health in a positive state. And when I had a really therapeutic 1:1 with my Key Nurse that left me believing that I was on the right path for recovery, I had the very appealing thought that I wanted to document it; and so, I’m NOT Disordered was created…