Category: Defying Mental Illness

  • Does Mental Health Affect Your GPA? [Conclusion]

    Does Mental Health Affect Your GPA? [Conclusion]

    By Abby from GPA Calculator Last time we explored the effect on GPA by your state of mental health. Recognition of mental ill health on campus was a key step. We then explored avenues for dealing with stress at school. Avoiding Perfectionism while employing time management effectively were our key strategies. And now our conclusion…….…

  • How Taking a Break Enhances Your Recovery

    by Joshua Butcher Whether it’s hitting the gym, socializing with friends, or tackling that 9-to-5, taking a break from the pressures of everyday life is crucial to your mental health and well-being. We all need mini breaks every once in a while and these mental health days make us better, stronger, and more focused.   Countless…

  • Protect your Mental Health – Set boundaries

    Where we don’t have control over overwhelming demands on our attention, our mental health can be affected. I have realised that setting boundaries was a necessary first step to final recovery from long-term mental illness. There were no boundaries to the things that attracted my attention during my long-term mental illness.  I  would start something…

  • Working to Music improved my Mental Health

    Working to music improved my mental health when I was most challenged at work. I love listening to music.  I work well with music in the background. Unfortunately my experience with putting headphones on while at work has not been a good one until recently. “Take off your headset” was the response I got from…

  • Planning helped my Mental Health Recovery

    Last time we talked about lack of planning  impacting mental health.  I will share today on how developing a habit of planning helped in my mental health recovery. When I stopped looking at the past, it was because I started looking forward to the future.  I became motivated to writing notes of every meeting I…

  • What TO SAY to someone challenged with Mental Illness

    Often we can end up putting our foot in our mouth when we don’t want to.  It is not that people intend to be mean and making derogatory statements regarding mental illness, however, people usually are ignorant of the disease and even how to handle it.  Here are some pointers on things what to say…