Tag: mental wellbeing

• Mike Hotel – World Mental Health Day and Black History Month

  

  I was diagnosed with Clinical Depression when I was 11 years old. I was then diagnosed with General Anxiety Disorder aged 35 years, but really I had been living with it for many, many years. Looking back, all the signs were all there, but my friends and family just put them down to moodiness, quirkiness,…

  Serena Malcolm

  10 October, 2021

  Mental Health, Race

  black history month, black mental health, black poet, mental health, mental wellbeing, poem, poetry

• Pachyderm Fight Club

  

  Sharing something a little different today: It shouldn’t really come as a surprise to anyone who knows me, but there is an elephant in the room. An enormous, fuck-off elephant, and nobody is talking about it. Seriously?! It’s like Pachyderm Fight Club. First rule of Pachyderm Fight Club? Well, you know. This particular elephant is…

  Serena Malcolm

  7 January, 2020

  Other

  alone, Analogy, depression, elephant in the room, fear, ignorance, mental health, mental illness, mental wellbeing, metaphor, mind, prose, taboo