Hey, everyone!
My name is April, I’m 27 years of ages. And at the moment I’m in my 3rd year in Athlone IT studying digital marketing. This is a blog as part of an assignment. For my blog, I decided to do something which is close to my heart. The majority of it will be about anxiety but I will also talk about different types of mental health and growing up with a parent with a mental illness. Also, I will be talking to you all about my life. When growing up mental health wasn’t really talked that much in my house. I did notice that my mam wasn’t the same as other people’s mam just her day to day stuff she did wasn’t normal. Don’t get me wrong I thought it was normal because that’s what I was seeing day to day. It wasn’t till 2012 I noticed a big change with mam. This is when she totally lost it. I’m not really sure why it happened in this year. Through this blog, I will telling you all about how we dealt with it all. From experience everything with my mam I release there aren’t any proper resources in Ireland for family’s to deal with mental health illness. To be even honest the mental health system in this country is an absolute joke. Many of times we had no one to turn to or they think come past 5 pm or on the weekend’s people don’t suffer from mental illness. It’s just mad how one day you can be grand don’t get me wrong she was still not right but it’s mad how things can just change in a day. So having to deal with my mam having a mental illness and literally going crazy. I never ever talked about anything that happened I just bottled everything up. And I think now because I bottle everything up I am beginning to feel the effects now with my anxiety. I think by writing everything down on this will be good for me. Don’t get me wrong this is way outside my comfort zone and I’d never imagine that I be telling the whole world all about what I went through and how I feeling. I just thought letting people know my experience that some people will know that there are other people out there dealing with the same thing. Also throughout this blog I will be talking all about different resources. What is good and bad for anxiety I will be talking about Bressie iron man challenge. There will be so much more. I hope even if I don’t get through to a lot of people but at least one person this might help them. Anyways thank you for visiting my page. And I hope I can help someone out there. Thanks
April xo