Abigail's Anxieties

My new curly hair routine for 3A/3B curls So over a year ago, I did a post all about my  hair care routine  and explained how having good hair seemed to help me with my depression by lifting my spirits. Well since then I've done a heck of a lot of research into the best ways to care for curly hair as well as trying a few different techniques. Now along the way, there was lots of frizz, lots of knots but in the end, lots of good results. So I thought I'd share this new routine with all my curly haired friends out there and those who are intrigued by curly hair, which to be honest seems to be everyone in my life who doesn't have it. I mean, I even have complete strangers sometimes come to look and even try to touch my hair. No, not weird at all, go ahead random person I don't know, attempt to run your hand through my impossibly thick hair while knotting it up in the process. Just....just no.   Now, just a couple of things bef...

So yeah, where exactly have you been Abbie? An explanation explaining my absence  So yeah, I've been gone for a while, much longer than I was planning to be gone but gone none the less. So why was I away for so long? Where was I? What was happening? Well the answer to these questions are the same thing: A sever episode in my depression and anxiety disorder. You see, it's been a stressful time in my life recently what with getting my exam results, finding out if I got into university or not, starting to feel less and less confident in my own life decisions and this lead to me entering my "episode" as we'll call it. I was stuck in a vicious cycle. My anxiety was convincing my brain that I had failed my exams, and that made my depression kick in and say "well if you have failed, what's the point of getting up and doing anything? The past 3 years at college have been a waste of your life so you might as well rest the waste of it" ...

Out Out Damned Spot My skin care routine Not long ago I showed you all my  hair care routine  and how it improves my mental health. So now I've decided to show my skin care routine and how taking care of my skin also helps me.  Now, I have far from perfect skin (I mean come on, I am a teenager...just about...) but trust me when I say compared to how it was in my early teens, it's doing pretty good. But it hasn't come without hard work. For instance, my skin got so bad that I bad to go onto long term antibiotics which you take for a minimum of 2 years (don't worry, this type doesn't become resistant to the body) and these combined with the time I take to take care of my skin it has done wonderous things.  As for what it's done for my anxiety and depression, we have to go back to when my skin was at it's worst. At this time in my life, it seemed as if it was just thing after another and having acne didn't help, it made my depression get wors...

Hair Hair everywhere How I take care of my crazy, curly hair.   Just to let you know, most of the products I use come from the UK store BodyCare and you cannot see their products online so I'm afraid that I cannot link them for you, sorry about that.   There is no denying that my hair is crazy, curly around 95% of the time. I blame the fact that I am both part Scottish and part Irish and therefore it's down to my genes (that also explains why I'm a redhead). Anyway, it has taken me many years to accept just how my hair looks and the right way to take care of it.  Now you may be asking "but Abbie, how does your hair link to your anxiety and mental well-being?". Well you see, when I was around 6/7 years old, for whatever which we still don't know to this day, my hair was falling out to the point where I had bald spots on my head and I would wake up to clumps of hair on my pillow. The only solution to this was to have my remaining hair cut very short to ...