Tag: anxiety

• 30 questions with JD :)

  Totes copying from an awesome blog by one of my favourite bloggers “Frog Machinery” where he interviews himself and gave us all insight into who he is as a person. In true Janet fashion, I like his idea and want to do the same. I’ll put the kettle on, you get comfortable. Let’s go! When […]

  janetdthomas77

  June 13, 2022

  Author life, books, family, Fears, food, Friends, gardening, grief, happy memories, helptheHomeless, Humour, identity, Illness, Life, loss, love, mental illness, Mindfulness, relationship advice

  30questions, anxiety, askme, authorlife, depression, Life, Relationships, writerslife

• Unfavourite

  As I was writing my Memoir, I was gaslighting myself! Was your childhood really that bad, JD – or did you dramatise it? I actually took to YouTube of all places, to find out how other people have been affected by knowing their parents favoured their sibling over them. One girl commented “if my Mother […]

  janetdthomas77

  May 20, 2022

  Author life, family, Family Obligations, Favouritism, goals, identity, Life, loss, Relationships, siblings, worth, writing

  99problems, aching, advice, anxiety, assertyourself, author, Author struggles, authorsLife, buddingwriter, FamilyDynamics, gaslighting

• Still here

  Yesterday I called in “sick” to work. I feel bad about it because I wasn’t sick, I was fed up, overwhelmed and burnt out. I don’t know if that would have been acceptable to call in with, so I went with “a migraine” which was accepted without question. Hmm. I also emailed my Psychiatrist’s secretary […]

  janetdthomas77

  May 18, 2022

  anxiety, Burnt out, depression, Fears, fed up, hospital, Illness, Life, loss, mental illness, panic attacks

  99problems, aching, afraid, anxiety, anxious, depression, mental illness, struggling

• I feel like this #struggling

  janetdthomas77

  May 7, 2022

  depression, Fears, fed up, Illness, mental illness, panic attacks

  anxiety, anxious, arghh, struggling

• Numb little bug

  I told my friends I was struggling on Facebook (I’m very dramatic, God bless me) and that I was suicidal. I did it 1) so that if I went through with killing myself, at least the people I love had a heads up and 2) in case anyone else felt suicidal, they’d know they weren’t […]

  janetdthomas77

  May 3, 2022

  anxiety, death, depression, Fears, fed up, Grieving, identity, Illness, Life, loss, mental illness, Suicidalideations, suicide

  anxiety, depression, grief, icantbreathe, Icantgoon, Icantmoveforward, ijustwanttodieplease, Life, mental illness, suicidalandthatsok, suicide, temptedbysuicide

• A happy memory

  When I told Jon I wanted a divorce, he left our house that night and moved back in with his family. Jon was surrounded by an entire, loving family while I paced up and down in the living room on my own for months afterwards. The first few days after Jon had left, the electricity […]

  janetdthomas77

  April 29, 2022

  anxiety, cheating, depression, divorce, family, Fears, Friends, Grieving, happy memories, Illness, kindness, Life, loss, love, rest

  anapwillfixalot, anxiety, depression, friendship, friendswillliftyouup, goodfriends, Life, mental illness, Relationships, sleepisnecessary, sleepisvital, thankfulforfriends

• Facts are facts

  The worst thing about suffering with mental illness is that you can’t trust yourself. You live in a constant state of gaslighting yourself “did that really happen or did I imagine it?”. It is the worst thing to suffer from – not being able to trust your own thoughts. When I’m in the depths of […]

  janetdthomas77

  April 29, 2022

  anxiety, bullies, communication, depression, divorce, Facts are facts, Fears, Friends, grief, identity, Illness, Life, mental illness, Police

  anxiety, depression, factsarefacts, Fears, Life, mental illness, mentalhealth, Relationships

• 1 foot in the past and 1 in the future

  With my feet in different directions – I CAN’T MOVE FORWARD. That’s one of the really tough downfalls of having both depression and anxiety running through my mind at the same time. I’m either depressed and dwelling on the past or really anxious about the future. I’m deeply hurt and battered from the fight with […]

  janetdthomas77

  April 29, 2022

  anxiety, depression, identity, Illness, mental illness, Mindfulness

  anxiety, beinthemoment, cantmoveforward, depression, Life, mental illness, Mindfulness, pickalane

• Knock Knock. Who’s there? The Police.

  Ethel you’ve gone TOO FUCKING FAR now.

  janetdthomas77

  April 25, 2022

  abuse, anxiety, bullies, depression, Fears, grief, Grieving, Illness, mental illness, Police, suicide, Welfarecheck

  anxiety, bullies, bully, depression, ethelyoufucker, grief, loss, mental illness, mentalhealth, Police, Welfarecheck

• Triggered

  “When bullies win, EVERYONE loses”

  janetdthomas77

  April 22, 2022

  anxiety, bullies, death, depression, dodging bullets, family, Fears, Friends, Grieving, identity, Illness, kindness, Life, loss, love, mental illness, Relationships, suicide, Work

  anxiety, beinghated, bullies, bulliesdontwin, depression, enemies, feelingalone, friendship, Life, mental illness, mentalhealth, Relationships, standUp