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See Me Scotland Even if you're not from Scotland, check out their website.  There aim is to end Mental health stigma and discrimination.  For my part Iv decided to be more open about my own mental health problems with depression and anxiety. Many of us with long term medical illnesses like IBS, also have issues with depression and anxiety.  Not having control of your own body, never knowing when the next episode will be triggered.  Being scared to eat out, and apprehensive about travelling long distances without access to a toilet.  IBS is a hidden illness, talking about digestive problems like mental health is not seen as the "done thing."  However if we don't talk about them, we are left feeling isolated and lonely.   My mental health problems became worse last year when I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia.  Dealing the IBS and mental health problems is hard enough, but adding on the extra health problems has overwhelmed me. Fibromyalg...

For the most part this blog is about living with IBS and food intolerances.  However people with IBS and other chronic illnesses also have problems with depression and anxiety. I feel this is something Iv neglected.  I'm a big supporter of talking about mental health problems, in the hope of breaking the stigma.    So those of us with mental health problems no longer feel they need to hide it.  Or in some cases feel ashamed.    So as part of the  See Me Scotland  campaign I'm going to start sharing my own experiences. THE DARKNESS  Hollowness fills me, it feels like a bereavement.   One minute I'm angry, the next deadened. Eyes open but not seeing, all emotions turn numb for my own protection. My mind keeps turning, I don't know or ever have seen the point in living.  The purpose of existing. Yet we are all pre-programmed to survive.  Sadness slips in, I mourn.  Then it occurs to m...