Aug 9, 2023 | YES
To coincide with Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, we (York Ending Stigma) hosted an online “Let’s Talk Mental health and Loneliness” event. York Ending Stigma (YES) Champions Emma, Maddy, Miles, and Sarah formed the panel of people sharing their experiences of...
Aug 9, 2023 | YES
Experiences For a long time, I hadn’t realised how much of my life revolved around a feeling of ‘not quit right’. Since I can remember I’ve always felt different. I’d worry about mess, cleanliness and accidents happening. I kept it completely to myself but had a...
Aug 9, 2023 | YES
If I could tell people just one thing about eating disorders, is that it’s not about the food. It was never about the food. If I could have been thin without starving myself, I would have. I would have traded years of my life to be thin, and in a way I did. I thought...
Aug 9, 2023 | YES
Anxiety and depression have made me miss so many things: birthdays, parties, special occasions, my own graduation, and on the worst days work and even getting downstairs in my own home. “Anxiety and depression have made me miss so many things” I remember saying...
Aug 9, 2023 | YES
I have always had a difficult time with employment, I can see how and why the stability, routine and sense of purpose it provides can be really helpful for many peoples mental health but personally every time I enter employment I get ill not long afterwards. I think...
Aug 9, 2023 | YES
I was a pleasure to teach according to my teachers at parent’s evening. Some variation of that was said each year of secondary school to my parents, but with the same additional comment too. I was a pleasure to teach as I didn’t disrupt the class, I would sit...
