Sarah Bailey

How (and When!) to Say YES to Your Inner Child

Everyone has an inner child. But how often do you let yours run free?

84 Mental Health Patient Stories

What a Mental Health Re-Diagnosis Means to Me
4 mins
article
Sarah Bailey

What a Mental Health Re-Diagnosis Means to Me

Can Dogs Help with Stress and Anxiety?
4 mins
article
Claire Eastham

Can Dogs Help with Stress and Anxiety?

How I Use Self-Care with MS to Help Stave off Depression
4 mins
article
Kat Naish

How I Use Self-Care with MS to Help Stave off Depression

Why We Need to Say STOP to Social Media Scare Tactics
7 mins
article
Martin Gallagher

Why We Need to Say STOP to Social Media Scare Tactics

How My Mental Health Affects My Parenting Style
7 mins
article
Martin Gallagher

How My Mental Health Affects My Parenting Style

How to Help a Loved One through a Panic Attack
4 mins
article
Kat Naish

How to Help a Loved One through a Panic Attack

Is this a Heart Attack? When Panic Attacks Hit Hard
7 mins
article
Claire Eastham

Is this a Heart Attack? When Panic Attacks Hit Hard

Animal Magnetism: Why Our Brains Love Wildlife
4 mins
article
Sarah Bailey

Animal Magnetism: Why Our Brains Love Wildlife

Brain Rebellion: What to Do When Your Mind Works Against You
9 mins
article
Sarah Bailey

Brain Rebellion: What to Do When Your Mind Works Against You

6 Tips to Manage the Winter Blues
3 mins
article
Birgit Bauer

6 Tips to Manage the Winter Blues

5 Code Words We Use When We're Feeling Bleak
5 mins
article
Megan Potts

5 Code Words We Use When We're Feeling Bleak

How Chronic Back Pain Led to Self-Discovery and New Loves
4 mins
article
Megan Potts

How Chronic Back Pain Led to Self-Discovery and New Loves

3 Easy Ways to Combat Airplane Anxiety
5 mins
article
Claire Eastham

3 Easy Ways to Combat Airplane Anxiety

4 Myths about Suicide - Debunked
9 mins
article
Megan Potts

4 Myths about Suicide - Debunked

6 Tips for Dating with Social Anxiety
4 mins
article
Claire Eastham

6 Tips for Dating with Social Anxiety

Chronic Illness and the Pandemic: How Did Some of Us Cope?
10 mins
article
Laura McKee

Chronic Illness and the Pandemic: How Did Some of Us Cope?

About Life Effects

Living with one or more chronic conditions affects your life in so many ways. The only people who really know what you are going through are those who have faced the same challenges for years. With that in mind we have created Life Effects, an initiative shaped by patients, for patients.

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