Welcome!

Thank you for checking out the About Me page and your interest in me and my work. As you maybe have already seen, my name is Diana and I am the host of this blog. I come from a background that enables me, sad to say but yes, me to talk about topics like Depression, c-PTSD, PTSD as such, Anxiety & a dysregulated nerve system.

The Why

You might be wondering why I decided to create this blog, as these are not really any fancy topics or something that one might think of as enjoyable or entertaining – but I think it is important. It is important that we have this conversation as numbers of mental health issues are constantly on a rise and the number of therapists and other supporting system seems to never be enough. Oh, before I forget – I am also an officially licensed occupational therapist in Germany. Already back then, in 2016, I had the urge to help people who went through the same things as I did, but little did I know my ‘symptoms of burnout’ were not a burnout as such, but this is for a different blog. Mental Health is gaining more and more acknowledgement in our societies worldwide, yet it is often still dismissed as something that is not as severe, as f.e having a leg broken. Which is, to be fair, very irritating to me. You would also not ask your friend with a broken leg to walk home from the bus stop, right? But as long as people are not admitting the impact of mental health, on the entire rest of our bodies systems, as well as our quality of life and with this on our capacities to manage living in the world as it is – we will be stuck. And numbers will climb, further, and further, and further.

What I consider my mission

So, to make it short: I want to give my 2 Cents and try to deliver an authentic picture of someone living with the named above conditions, as well as someone being educated and always eager to improve myself & my situations, on how life goes. I would like to build a bridge between the generations, and highlight why we sometimes have such intense communication & tolerance problems towards each other’s behaviour and how generational trauma f.e also shaped who we are today. I want to realistically test and discuss methods to handle my ‘little demons’, as well as try to put all the things I learned into words for you to read.

And if I manage to make one of you feel less alone with all of this, that would be the best part of it. 🙂

I am a millennial from 1992 and with this being said, you will not see me writing educational textbooks here, but you will also not see me delivering 10-seconds-only-content. Buuuuut, there might be memes. Because memes make every topic a bit easier to digest, don’t you agree?

How you as my reader can help me

Easy! Read the blogs, share them – even if it is just in your personal WhatsApp chat with yourself, where you place all sort of links and things you don’t want to forget, hihi. Other than that, make keep an eye open to any shop launches for stickers, or something like this, but the time for this is not here yet. So reading, interacting and maybe joining my newsletter is by far all I would ever ask of you. ♥