Shining a light on depression, what it means and how it feels to live with this debilitating mental shift is Matt Haig’s funny, touching and ultimately positive book Reasons to Stay Alive. Continue reading “Am Reading even though it’s #TimetoTalk”
I saw a tweet from @TimetoChange about #TimetoTalkDay.
I mulled it over.
I wondered if I would have anything to contribute to the conversation. What words could I contribute to the issue of Mental Health? I wasn’t sure that there was much I could say and I was afraid that I would be stood like a lemon listening to a conversation, desperately trying to say something worthwhile, but experiencing that awful, slow realisation that I had nothing in common with the other participants.
Nothing to contribute to the conversation.
No voice.
No value.
It really annoyed me this thought that I wouldn’t be able to contribute. That I had no voice. That I was worthless.
Life of Ryrie 