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New Release! My new book ‘Behind Those Eyes’ a novella, is live on Amazon! A story about people and adversity, love, friendship and stigma with lots of twists

New Release! My new book ‘Behind Those Eyes’ a novella, is live on Amazon!

It’s a story about people and adversity, love and friendship and stigma, with lots of twists and turns which should keep you guessing all the way along! It features two homeless men, a brother and sister, a woman who finds love,

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March 30th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alcohol and drug use and addiction, Amanda Green, Behind Those Eyes Novella, Depression, Family, Homeless, Kindle, MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN, Mental health stigma, My Novellas, Stress/Anxiety | 2 comments

Sharing our stories to beat stigma around mental illness and mental health issues

Well, as we know from my two memoirs and my many blog posts on my website, and continuing articles, that I have been sharing my story about my mental illness, life story and recovery and now, if I may, I would like YOU to share yours on my website.

I’d like to know about your

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March 26th, 2014 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Abuse, Alcohol and drug use and addiction, Amanda Green, Anorexia, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bulimia, bullying, Child Abuse, counselling, Depression, Eating Disorders, group analysis, May - BPD awareness month, mental abuse, MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN, Mental health case studies, Mental Health Recovery, Mental health stigma, OCD obsessive compulsive disorder, Physical symptoms of mental illness, Psychiatrist, psychotherapy, rape, Schizophrenia, Self Harm + cutting, Self Help, sexual abuse, Specific Mental Health awareness days/weeks, Stress/Anxiety, Suicidal | 13 comments

Flight – a film that portrays the realities of alcoholism, drugs and responsibilities of a pilot

Spoiler alert!

Wow, I have just got back in from seeing ‘Flight’ at the movies. Now anyone who knows much about me will know of the panic that’s hit me when Chris is flying us somewhere in his Cessna 172. He is a fantastic pilot, don’t get me wrong, it’s just that with depression, anxiety,

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February 3rd, 2013 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Alcohol and drug use and addiction, Depression, MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN, Mental health stigma | 2 comments

Alcohol Awareness Week 2012 19-25 November – My experiences of alcohol addiction

It’s ‘Alcohol Awareness Week’ next week so I decided to share some of my experiences of alcohol addiction and trying to give it up, as well as drug use – ALL of which I regret! It is so easy for some people (like me) to get involved in heavy alcohol use so and it really

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November 17th, 2012 | Tags: , , , | Category: Alcohol and drug use and addiction, Amanda Green, MENTAL HEALTH CAMPAIGN, Specific Mental Health awareness days/weeks | 3 comments