Rest In Peace Matthew Perry

Date 8 November 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
I put a short podcast on social media yesterday from the great late Matthew Perry, talking about addiction. It was his very last podcast, before his untimely death. It just goes to show how mental health is at the forefront of our physical ...
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The Political Detriments of Health

Date 3 November 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
"Looking at health through the lens of political determinants means analysing how different power constellations, institutions, processes, interests, and ideological positions affect health within different political systems ...
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Suicide and The 'Spiritual Realm'

Date 31 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
The world should be talking about suicide because it's part of life, and to stop the stigma around its connotations. Suicide is part of our every day realities, it's part of mental health that I talk about on my blog. Suicide happens, let's talk ...
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Striving to Learn

Date 25 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
I had to go through everything in order to learn" - Martin Scorsese Do you relate? I relate. Living with the struggles of living with what I later learned was a disability, I had to go through what I did. We can spend a lifetime 'striving ...
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Challenges in Global Mental Health

Date 24 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
In a world that is changed, my blog continues to describe, and spell out the challenges. Through my writing, I give the reader the facts, in an open, honest and transparent way. Mental health is a critical aspect of our well-being and ...
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A Poem About Living

Date 20 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
I counted my years and found that I have less time to live from here on than I have lived up to now.I feel like that child who won a packet of sweets: he ate the first with pleasure, but when he realized that there were few left, he began…
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Mental Health: Every Mind Matters

Date 18 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
"I would enter into what felt to my 10-year-old self like a sort of dreamy uneasiness. I was completely out of touch with my physical presence and felt my consciousness, or whatever, carry me above myself." - (Source: Putting ...
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Mental Health: Breaking Down Barriers

Date 14 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
An individual’s response to present events is based on their mental state. In the pandemic, individually we've all had a lot to cope with that has interfered with mental health. The pandemic isn't gone, many people are still ...
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Your Soul's Journey

Date 11 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
Have you ever questioned your next move, whether you should go down ‘path A’ or ‘path B.' Do you feel disconnected from yourself, or do you get the feeling there’s something bigger on the horizon? That's your soul talking ...
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Brexit Rift

Date 10 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
I still talk about Brexit on my blog because it's affecting me personally. Others on social media also care about its repercussions and the effects it's having on their lives. We all have a right to understand what Brexit really means ...
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Touched by Suicide

Date 8 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
There will be many people out there who know of someone who has taken their own life. Although disability fares better, talking about suicide is still taboo. There are complex reasons behind why a person feels they cannot continue ...
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Sleep-walking into Chronic Illness

Date 3 October 2023
Author Ilana Estelle
The world is sleep walking into the new variant which hasn't made the rounds yet, but we know it's there. Why the reluctance? I don't get the reluctance, because unlike flu, the virus if you're unlucky can affect the heart, the ...
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