CBT has equipped me with the tools to manage my mental health better and improve my resilience. Does CBT work? Find out how it helped me to navigate my path.
For World Mental Health Day and World Arthritis Day, I’m talking candidly about my personal battle with mental health and how it’s closely tied to my arthritis and chronic illness.
Your mental health and adjusting to disability go hand in hand. In this article, I talk openly about my struggle and how I must stop apologising for my health.
#bekind #disability #mentalhealth #arthritis #disabilityawareness
Chronic illness and mental health – two evil partners in crime (part 2)
This is a difficult post for me to write. Finally, I went to the doctors today to disclose the deterioration of my mental health as my physical challenges progress. As a man, it feels like failure but I have to remind myself that it takes a strong person to recognise […]
Arthritis blogger, writer and advocate who has had Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis from childhood. Raising awareness and sharing his experiences to help others, Joel specialises in writing about parenting, pain and the mental health impact of living with chronic illness and writes for several leading charities and organisations.
