If you’re a mental health advocate or just someone who wants to have a say about mental illness in South, then join the network.
Blahpolar Diaries designed a new badge to make talking about mental health so so cool. ;o
#mentalhealth in #SouthAfrica
Blahpolar Diaries is one of our resident authors at Our Lived Experience and she’s also quite talented in other areas like design and probably eating chillipoppers (Jalapeno peppers stuffed with Feta cheese and then deep fried). The latter is a guess but I wouldn’t be surprised.
She designed a beautiful badge for bloggers associated with OLE (check our blogroll on the right hand side of the screen). If you’re open about your illness and write about it, we’d love to hear from you!
We aim to create a network of bloggers where we can:
- Examine issues relating to a particular group of people (Bipolar Disorder, Depression, OCD, Borderline Personality Disorder etc.)
- Develop into a national network that would provide a basis for mutual support (which will enable sharing of ideas and experiences)
- Work toward raising awareness, education and thereby de-stigmatizing mental illness in our country
We welcome you to share who you are with…
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Yve's Corner 
I love to blog on my bpd, bipolar, anxiety, and ptsd issues just simply to break the stigma, to help educate, to be there for others, and bc its a daily struggle!😧
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We would love to add you to the list of bloggers. Have you got a story about you or anything related to the above we can publish?
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Wow. Lol. All I have is on my WordPress blog just open and candid about daily struggles…what do you need and I can give it to ya..
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Well tell us about them. In a post between 500-1000 about who you are, your struggles and victories with your experiences. 🙂 paint us a picture. Tell us about stigma. Tell us about your relationships. Your support system. Anything that you think people need to hear about. 🙂
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I can and would love to do that…Thank you 🙂
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Email to ourlivedexperience.wordpress.com
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Is this the right email?
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Oops email to ourlivedexperience@gmail.com
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Ok…I worked on this today some and need to edit because I got 3 pages on google documents! Let me make some revisions tomorrow eve and try to get that in…Idk just what you wanted, I was very candid, open about struggles with medications, hospitalizations, and even self-harm and suicide attempts. Im not sure thats allowed but to alter that is to alter my truth.
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Okay. Thank you! We will add a trigger warning. When you edit, try not to be too explicit. Remember some readers may be a little sensitive at times and we wouldn’t want to turn them away from your work
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Ok I wont be too explicit…I do not want to trigger anyone
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