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Even in this day and age, I seem to find that Tourettes is still a very taboo subject to most people. I understand different doctors specialise in different things, but you would not believe the amount of times I have said to medical professionals “I have Tourettes” and they look at me with a blank face and ask what Tourettes is. Naturally, most other people have no clue about it either. I often find myself explaining ‘what is wrong with me’ to a lot of people. 

I left hospital with a newborn baby of 1 day old and was re-admitted to hospital when my baby was 6 days old.  This was not back into the regular...

Keeping a stiff upper lip, keeping calm and carrying on, big boys don’t cry etc. These are all things I believed for most of my life.  To be honest, up...

For World Mental Health Day in October 2017, I was interviewed by the Essex Chronicle. They published an article titled "Woman who thought she was Jesus' sister wants mental health...

Article 2, September 2015 By DC Al Phillips The following account has been written retrospectively with the help of my ever loving wife, Karen Phillips, and from anecdotes from medical...

ANXIETY Q & A “The more you know about anxiety and anxiety disorder, the better you will feel and be so you can give yourself control back of your thoughts...

Through my teens I suffered a little from obsessive compulsive disorder in the form of cleaning and tidying. This was not only my room - but the rest of the...

If I'm honest, I had been suffering from post natal depression since I had Jasmine in 2006. The doctor tried to tell me this back in April 2007. I thought...