Tag: mental health blog UK

• Why I’m Speaking Loudly About My Reality

  

  800 days. That’s how long my life has been paused inside hospital walls. What started as survival has turned into exhaustion, trauma, and a body that can’t stay silent anymore. This is the reality of institutionalisation, seizures, and FND — and what happens when your “normal” was never normal to begin with. I’m speaking loudly…

  Jordan Elliot Beaven

  18th February 2026

  General, Mental Health, Trauma Healing

  ADHD, anxiety, AuDHD, Autism, Autism Burnout, Autistic Adult, Autistic Meltdown, Blogging, Chronic illness, Complex-PTSD, depersonalisation, derealisation, Different Universe, difficult emotions, Disability, Disability Awareness, Disabled, Disabled Life, disconnection, dissociating, Education, grief and growth, Hospital Life, isolating, Life After Trauma, Life Changing, Lifestyle, Long-Term Hospital Stay, Long-term Illness, Mental Health, Mental Health Awareness, mental health blog UK, Mental Health Recovery, Mental Health Struggles, mental isolation, mental-illness, Neurodivergent, Neurodivergent Life, Neurodivergent Life Blog, NHS, PTSD, Recovery, Rehabilitation, scared, Sensory Overload, Suicide Attempt Survivor, Trauma Healing, Trauma Recovery, Traumatic Events, Wheelchair User

• 25: A Birthday I Never Thought I’d See

  

  I didn’t think I would see 16. I shouldn’t have lived past 22. But today I’m 25. After three birthdays in hospital and a life shaped more by mental illness than anything else, this one feels complicated — grief, fear, survival, and the fragile hope of a second chance.

  Jordan Elliot Beaven

  16th February 2026

  General

  Autism, birthday, birthday reflections, Complex-PTSD, Disabled, grief and growth, Life After Trauma, Long-Term Hospital Stay, Mental Health Awareness, mental health blog UK, quarter life crisis, starting over at 25