Lowestoft, England
john@livingmentalhealth.com

Author: John Durrant

There is no "I" in struggle

Positivity Verses Negativity

Hey everyone, I hope you are all well and good today. I’m going to talk to you about my struggles of living with mental health, and my last two therapy sessions I have had, and how I think they are going, and how my therapist has challenged, me and I’m finding it hard. I’ll give…
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Another visit to Burgh Castle

So on the 19th February we where again at Burgh Castle for another group session, where we take our fixed points photos, and we had Ian the artist with us and Tim the stone guy. There was a small group of, and we met at the village hall. After all the introductions and a catch…
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My journey to my Diagnosis

Hi everyone I would like to talk to about how I learned how to deal with my mental health diagnosis, and how I went from using it as an excuse, then learning to not use it as a label above my head, and let the diagnosis take over my life. I was first diagnosed in…
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Road to Recovery

Hi everyone todays blog I’m going to talk to you about how I started my road to recovery and what I’ve learned through this journey of recovery. When I became ill in 2017 I had to wait to get an appointment to see some one form the local mental health team. After I had this…
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2019 A Positive start

Hey everyone I hope your all well today I’m going to talk to you about positive things and my plans for the new year. I hope you’ve all had a good Christmas and and have a fantastic new year. This year I’m setting myself a target of speaking at 5 events on mental health and…
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Surviving My Christmas

So I’m going to talk to about the Christmas coming up, how I feel about Christmas and how I cope with the festivities alongside my mental health. As a child I think I had good Christmas times. I don’t remember having a bad one but when I started to grow up and my sister didn’t…
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Given something back

Hey everyone it’s been a long time but I just had to take some ‘me time’ and get myself back on the right track. Now I’m going to write about this new project I’m involved in with Access Community Trust. I was just looking through Twitter and Facebook when saw this picture. I knew the…
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Voices in my head

I’m going to talk about the voices in my head that talk I can remember hearing from about the age of 12. I thought they were calling my name. I would be sitting in another room to where my mum and sister would be, maybe not even on the same floor, doing something and then…
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“My Visits to Burgh Castle – would it interest you”?

Hello everyone at the Restoration Trust. I’m going to tell you about the project I’m currently involved in at Burgh Castle that I attend every other Tuesday. The group is called the Burgh Castle Almanac group. We meet up in the village hall at Burgh Castle and walk up to the castle where we take…
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Men are from Mars…

From an early age, the majority of boys are pressured by society, family or peers to grow up fast and be men, even before their teenaged years. Being told they can’t play with dolls or dress up in women’s clothes amongst other things that can be classed as gender stereotyping. Also being taught that they…
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