When we look at life really and truthfully, we haven’t talked about mental health probably for many years. I know it for me as a 38-year-old adult with severe dyslexia during my life my mental health has gone up and down.

I remember very clearly when I was a young person maybe at the age of 12 when my life was really difficult and there’s an element when I did feel suicidal. I have discussed this in webinars and podcasts before, but I thought I’d just talk about this and kind of break it down. To this day it was a dark time for me but actually it was a time of having to breakthrough and a barrier of life and that is that as a dyslexic we are under so much pressure and stress throughout our days because of this little world we live in. We are at school listening using cognitive function and trying to understand trying to comprehend going home to that safe space means that we can be ourselves and we can breakdown the barrier that we’ve had to use a school to stop being that stupid child, that clown of the classroom, that child that’s going to be picked on and when I look back now it is silly in one sense that I had a sensory overload on the day that I put in my hand in the washing up bowl and feeling bits a food or a plate and then the knife.

We talk about life and mental health a lot more which is very beneficial and I definitely think but we have to continue doing this with our young people especially in our dyslexia family.

As an adult now I have other pressures of life, from my dependents to my jobs and the activities that I choose to do and yes from time to time medication is required and can be very beneficial for me along with talking and having a support network is also very powerful at breaking through barriers it helps me to achieve which can go a long way to positive mental health.

I recommend following Samantha Garner who talks a lot about personal mental health.