MENTAL HEALTH

If you happen to have followed my blog for a while now, you’ll probably know that mental health is a topic of great interest for me and a subject close to my heart. I’ve mentioned a little bit about studying for my ‘Certificate in Mental Health’ with the Open University, and I banged on quite extensively about last year's fund-raising efforts for SAMH. I've moaned about anxiety now and again and occasionally alluded to other happenings, but things have generally been vague and other mental health posts few and far between. 

I've been thinking for some time now that I'd like to change that. I'd love to write about the subject a little more and have been giving a lot of consideration about how best to go about that: how to be open without making myself too vulnerable; how to share without over-sharing; and whether or not it even fits here on this blog. It's crossed my mind to start another blog entirely - maybe even anonymously - isolating the subject from all the playlists and pictures and coffee shops here on this one. 

In the end, I've decided against that. My blog is generally a "lifestyle" blog and my lifestyle just so happens to include some areas relating to mental health. I can't separate my life into neat little packages - 'Coffee-Lover' in this box; 'Vegetarian' in another; 'Mentals' in the next one - as they're all too well connected and tightly bound. 

So it is that I won't be trying to make those parcels out of my blog. What I will be doing is touching on the topic of mental health a little more from now on, weaving it between threads of restaurant reviews and photographs and whatever else I normally go on about. I hope that won't put you off. I'd be so glad to have you follow along! 

xo