Welcome to another post of the WEGO Health 'National Health Blog Post Month'!! It's Day 21 so, the end is nearly nigh! I hope you are all enjoying the posts so far. Ready for the next one? Today, I have chosen the prompt asking to write about mental health. As you may now already know, I have a BSC in Psychology, and currently volunteer for a local Mental Health Charity, so this topic and area is of importance to me. I suppose,...
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Today, is all about the moments that as health activists or as patients we regret. The moments that looking back on, we wished we had done things differently. Mine happened during my first year at University. Around this time the dizziness was becoming increasingly worse, and was also experiencing at the time periods where I was fainting and losing consciousness for a few minutes. This obviously caused some alarm, not only for myself but also for my parents. I found myself...
Continue readingWelcome again to another WEGO Health Advocating for Another Carnival, it's the fifth day and the prompt is as follows: It's storytelling day! Write a story about yourself, your community as though you are a children's book author. Be sure to include a beginning, middle, and end. Extra points for illustrations! I love this prompt! It's really different and am sure it is a style of writing us health activists haven't tried before. It seems to be a lot harder than it...
Continue readingWelcome to another blog post from 'My Brain Lesion and Me'! This month, the folks at WEGO Health are concentrating on 'Health Activism in Real Life'. So, instead of the focus on being on online support groups or on those like me who blog regarding a particular health condition or cause the focus is instead on those organisations or even on specific people who use the more face-to-face approach to health activism. This could include any of the following: Non-Profit Organisations, i.e. charitable...
Continue readingWell, it's now officially halfway through the challenge for the Health Activist Writer's Month Challenge!! Hope you all have enjoyed the entries so far and will continue to visit the blog after the Challenge has ended. So, today's challenge is as follows: Writing with Style...
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