2018 is the year that marks my three year anniversary of surviving suicide. What makes someone who seemingly from the outside, seemed absolutely fine, to do something so drastic to themselves? Let’s start from the...

When I was 17 my best friend Corey needed footy players for this new Colts team. When I say needed players, he needed me to stand on the oval for 80 minutes and contribute nothing...

This has been a long time coming. It's not easy when you want to talk about your mental illness and share your experience in the hope that someone somewhere will feel a little less alone...

What you are about to read has been by far the hardest thing I have ever had to write. I was asked recently what my connection with Mental Health was... it kinda got me thinking...

It all roughly started in 2003. There were no warning signs or particular incidents that set it all off. Just unexplained reasons for feelings of worthlessness and serving no purpose in life. Staring at the...

Invisible.  Every morning feels the same. As I get up my head is full of confusion, feeling dizzy and worried what is going to happen at school today. Some days my feelings takeover my whole...

R U Ok Day has been at the forefront this week, and my news feed has been filled with posts from Beyond Blue, so either the timing is coincidental or law of attraction has delivered...

My story begins with my wedding day in 2007. The happiest day of my life was the day I realised something was very wrong, something was taking over my body and my mind. Everyone told...

I suffer from anxiety and depression. Looking back over the last few years of my life, I feel very lucky and grateful to still be alive having survived a horrendously painful, lonely period of darkness...