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@AB_napier

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Edinburgh, Scotland Katılım Şubat 2011
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Inspired by @DaniRowley’s lovely words I spent the weekend (slightly obsessively) listening to @FRabbits Set You Free (70 plays) sacrilege when your favourite track’s a cover, I know, but what a cover, plucking up the courage to write about my own long, slow embrace with the void
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… but I feel I am much better prepared to cope now - and that is massively due to embracing my mental health, and better understanding the triggers (the things, and people, to avoid), as well as the things and people that bring me joy.
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… like a superpower. After all, light and dark work in perfect harmony in the world every morning and evening. My light and dark sides now feel balanced. There is no light without darkness. That’s not to say my darkness won’t dominate again at some point. Of course it will…
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… differently. I accepted that I wouldn’t “get better”, which is effectively what I had been thinking would happen, sooner or later, all my life. Realising that was hugely liberating. I stopped fighting and just embraced the way I am. Now, understanding my mental health feels…
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… things for the first time really. This is who I am, warts and all, as the saying goes. That was a huge step forwards. I’d been fighting against the idea that there was something fundamentally wrong with me since I was a teenager. Posting my story on here made me see things …
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… it took me a long time to come to terms with the fact that I had mental health issues. I was in denial for decades. Speaking about my experiences 3 years ago was a massive step forward, though I didn’t realise it at the time. Because I was properly admitting and confronting …
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It’s just over 3 years since I had my mental health “coming out” on here. The anniversary fell at roughly the same time as the journalism graduation ball at Murrayfield. A few folk, who weren’t at Napier back then, have asked me about it, so I’ve pinned that stream here…
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