Author Archives: Alice Down the Rabbit Hole

Picture this… Cruising home in my little Fiat 500 on Friday Night after a long week of work.. and CLUNK, CLUNK, CLUNK, CLUNK. Uhohhhh. Flat tyre. Ideal reaction: Pull over into a car park and check out the situation… tyre is definitely flat. Curse a little. Get started on finding the spare tyre. Change theContinue reading “The art of overreacting”

‘On a scale of 1-10, how much it does it hurt?’ Zero, and that’s the problem. I don’t feel anything. Sometimes I think that this is the hardest way to feel. I feel numb and like there is something wrong with me. It’s as if my mind has decided it’s just going to turn off allContinue reading “‘On a scale of 1-10, how much does it hurt?’”

It seems to be that towards the evening, I completely freak out and panic. I don’t really know what has triggered it; there isn’t always an answer. I was recovering from a panic and started to reflect on all of the techniques that I have learnt over the years that have helped me to comeContinue reading “No thank you, not today”

Anxiety is hard to shake off and can spring up on us at the most inconvenient of times. Sometimes we need to take a step back and focus on where we are and what we are doing. This is what we call ‘grounding’. Grounding is a technique I have learnt a lot about over myContinue reading “Keeping your feet on the ground”

There is a huge misconception around anti-depressants. A lot of anxiety/depression sufferers believe, (myself included at one stage), that taking anti-depressants/anxiety medication is a sign of weakness and giving up. We are all independent and don’t like to admit that we need help. We are all too proud to admit that, sometimes, we are actuallyContinue reading “Doctors and drugs”

I often think of my anxious mind as a big ball of tangled and knotted threads. The more I have on my mind, the more tangled they become. I’m more than guilty of tugging at the strings all at the same time and expecting them all to just untangle.. But, of course, I’m only making things worse. The knots only get tighter and I lose my patience.Continue reading “Tangled threads”

*POPS CORK* All in all, I have had a pretty good week. As my current readers will know, I won my first award this week! I won ‘Young Volunteer of the Year’ in the ‘Making it Happen’ awards in Sevenoaks. I can’t tell you how awesome it feels to have even have been nominated forContinue reading “I won an award!”

It is currently 4am and I am wide awake. I have been since 2am. I have no idea what woke me up or why I am awake at such a ridiculous time, but there we go, this often happens. There is only so long you can stare at the blank ceiling before your mind wandersContinue reading “The Night Shift”