TheAdventuresOfRoo
Bio
I am a freelance writer and content creator from Bradford. I'm also an animal lover and sports fanatic.
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Stories (9/0)
Letters to my mental health (part 2)
Fuck off depression. No one likes you, especially not after today. You invited me over and made me sit in the dark, in the silence and think. Do you not remember what happens when I'm left with my own thoughts? It didn't help that you sat there staring at me, encouraging me to fall deeper into a hole. Why pretend to be my friend, lure me in, only to make me feel worse. And it doesn't go when you leave. Nope, I stay like this for a while. Sometimes it can be weeks before my mood picks up again. Sometimes the day I start to feel better you pay me another visit and I end up back at square one.
By TheAdventuresOfRoo4 years ago in Psyche
Letters to my mental health
Hey there Panic. It's 3.55pm on a Monday afternoon. The weather is gloomy and I didn't sleep well. I should be working but you have decided to come and see me. It feels like it has been a while. It's not so nice to have you around again that sounds horrible but it's true. Every time you turn up uninvited to my house you break plates and leave a mud trail across the floor and I am not sure how much more I can take. It would be nice if you atleast cleaned up after yourself but I always feel in a mess when you leave. Just once I ask you Panic, to at least throw some of your rubbish away instead of leaving it with me. It's kind of tiring clearing up after you.
By TheAdventuresOfRoo4 years ago in Psyche
Living with Health Anxiety
"Health anxiety is an anxiety condition that is often housed within the Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) spectrum of disorders. Those affected by health anxiety have an obsessional preoccupation with the idea that they are currently (or will be) experiencing a physical illness. The most common health anxieties tend to centre on conditions such as cancer, HIV, AIDs, etc. However, the person experiencing health anxiety may fixate on any type of illness. This condition is known as health anxiety, illness phobia/illness anxiety or hypochondriasis."
By TheAdventuresOfRoo6 years ago in Psyche
The Anxiety Elf (Part 3)
It’s over. I am no longer "The Anxiety Elf," although the anxiety bit still stands. It’s been well over a week since my last shift, and I’m so glad to be out of there and back to my simple routine, although to begin with I was missing working. It was making me fidgety not having anything to do—but I would rather be fidgety than anxious about having to go back. The money I earned will run out and eventually I will have to think about getting back into more work.
By TheAdventuresOfRoo6 years ago in Psyche
The Anxiety Elf (Part 2)
"Tell yourself you are excited, not anxious." I can tell myself I am a superwoman but it doesn’t mean I am — the conversation I had with my mum right before I went to my job for the first time. The sort of conversation I have with most people when I tell them about anxiety. “Just ignore it,” they say — like it’s that easy. It does depend on the level of anxiety; some people may be able to blank out those feelings, the feeling that everything around them may blow up if they leave the house. Whereas me, the more I try to convince myself it won’t happen, the more I end up convincing myself it could be worse. But I did make it there alive, and I didn’t throw up — although I was close too many times.
By TheAdventuresOfRoo6 years ago in Psyche
The Anxiety Elf
Here comes Santa! It's about a month until Christmas, so half of us are wetting ourselves with excitement whilst others are wishing it would be over already. I am one of those people who wishes it could be Christmas everyday—yes, like the song. I have been given a wonderful opportunity to be an elf at Santa's grotto at my local farm shop for the month running up to Christmas (and get paid for it), which is great —I love Christmas, I love the film Elf, and I love singing Christmas songs. So it sounds perfect right? BUT how do I go about that when my anxiety is so bad sometimes I struggle to even leave the house...
By TheAdventuresOfRoo6 years ago in Psyche