I'm really pissing myself off
Since we launched our #SmashingStigma campaign many people from outside the studio have been in touch to share their story. Fanny Parker has shared this blog, her musical blog about how song writing has helped her… I have a story. And it’s still unfolding. I write my chapters through song. My song writing is my therapy. I have lots of songs that reflect the hard times I’ve endured mentally during my 20's. I wrote to sort my head out. It was like therapy for me. Kept me sane a
A no-blame situation
I’m intentionally not being specific about my past, because it is not important. The importance is that it is nobody’s fault. Bad things can happen to people very early in life (when they are babies, or very young children). Sometimes the person may have, apparently, no memory of what happened, but normal psychological development is altered and the effects are long term. My parents were good hearted, intelligent professional people and if they had understood what was happ
Keeping the campaign going
https://smashingstigma.hubbub.net/ When we launched our campaign in February this year we had no idea what to expect. We have never done anything like this before- would we be met with silence or something else that we didn’t know how to describe. What has happened over the last 3 weeks is that we have learnt a lot. Seeing the hubbub of activity on social media, the waves of positivity coming our way from all around the world, the new conversations sparking future potential a
We’re really good at covering up pain
I think I have anxiety, but do I? So many times I have been asked- how are you? Before I have chance to answer it’s followed by ‘you look so well and happy’. I think to myself, oh well I must be fine then. I think so much of the way we live our lives is governed by expectations of normality and ok-ness. This has made me completely unable to recognise the times in which I am really not o.k. Not only that but it has stunted my ability to say – ‘help me?’ without feeling like I
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