It Started With Failure
I’ve struggled, managed and battled my mental health for many years. It’s now been more than two decades since the dark clouds first began to gather.
The ‘failure’ refers to the multiple times I had previously started a blog like this one, prior to DONTHIDE being born – but I just kept quitting. It’s crucial this word takes centre stage here, because we all know the phrase “if you’re not failing, you’re not even trying” – this is paramount to my success.
DONTHIDE has been created as a space for honesty, without judgement. It’s a place where I believe mental health shouldn’t be reduced to labels or quick fixes, because there are none. Many of of us carry things quietly, often isolated and trapped by our own minds.
Without being too ‘dark’, there’s been times in my life where I have felt that low, that I’ve not wanted to be alive. In all honestly, I rarely feel this way nowadays, but believe me, I still have really low periods in my life, ‘the dark clouds‘, as I referred to previously.
I’ve truly battled, harder than any other time in my life. It’s now time to share this with the world, and inspire others to realise there is light at the end of their ‘mental health tunnels’.
The blog comprises of personal anecdotes, informal chats with people about their own battlesand views on mental health and a chance to share photography, which is something I am passionate about which I believe links appropriately to the topic in question.
If you’re reading this and have a story of your own, please share it.
Even one story can make a difference to someone struggling in silence.