https://mhasl.me/tags/SlowButSteady/ Recent content in SlowButSteady on mhasl.me - Mental Health Affects Someone Like Me Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2026/09/04/intro-to-david-johnson/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2026/09/04/intro-to-david-johnson/ Who am I? My name is David Johnson. I’ve lived through many different periods in my life where I’ve gone through a number of deeply addictive cycles, and not just the same ones time and time again. Life outside the world of being a recovering poly addict, is complex, challenging &incredibly frustrating too. I hate the amount of snide comments & language that people make when talking about People Who Use Substances (PWUS) like they are lessor people not worthy of sharing this spinning rock hurtling through space. https://mhasl.me/2026/09/04/partnering-refuse-to-conform-clothing/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2026/09/04/partnering-refuse-to-conform-clothing/ Background Much like the 🔗Partnership with BadShirtClub🔗 we’ve also set up a partnership with Refuse to Conform Clothing due to liking their range of products, as they have a Mental Health theme to them. I mean just look at this for a beautiful t-shirt direct link with our reference Discount’s Using this unique URL, https://rttc.mhasl.me (or https://refusetoconformclothing.co.uk/?ref=mhaslme) & then using the discount code ryanyates at the checkout (I had hoped to change this to mhaslme) you can get 10% off any orders you make across their range. https://mhasl.me/2026/08/13/incoming-content-yet-again/ Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2026/08/13/incoming-content-yet-again/ Alert: Incoming Content (Yet Again) This is a follow on from the last post about content coming & is much the same as that one was. Once again, this is a very quick post to let you know that we (well Ryan as it’s still just Ryan here for now) is in process of actually pulling some content together. We have (well Ryan has) a plan of content for the next few years & whilst that hasn’t changed, certain circumstances have done and well this then invokes the cumon, time to get 💩 done response, in my mind. https://mhasl.me/2025/09/02/partnering-with-badshirtclub/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2025/09/02/partnering-with-badshirtclub/ Background Gone are the days where shirts are dull, boring and bland 🥱. Here comes the rise of the colourful and head turning “did I just see that” thoughts and conversation starters from the 🔗Bad Shirt Club🔗 (previously known as Shit Shirt Club) until Advertising Standards deemed their name unadvertisable, which is utter 💩💩💩💩💩. I mean just see for yourself with this one, which is one of many. Discount’s Using this unique URL, https://badshirt. https://mhasl.me/2025/09/01/incoming-content/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2025/09/01/incoming-content/ Alert: Incoming Content This is a very quick post to let you know we are in process of pulling some content together. We have (well Ryan has) a plan of content for the next few years. Some of this will be public and shown as part of a GitHub Project, (a fancy project management tool like a Kanban board) that will have a loose timeline for when differing types of content will make it’s way to you. https://mhasl.me/2025/05/28/is-this-thing-on/ Wed, 28 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2025/05/28/is-this-thing-on/ Huh, It was off..? So this thing needed a bit of attention. Attention that due to other things I kinda left it to the side whilst I did a rethink on a few things. This lead to projects elsewhere like docTypes and putting some future requirements for all and previous projects for me to implement ADR’s which are know as either a Any Decision Record or an Architecture Decision Record. Which is a way of saying we had a Decision point & this is how we reached it &background info as needed. https://mhasl.me/2023/09/04/universal-basic-income---the-way-to-a-healthier-nation-pt1/ Mon, 04 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2023/09/04/universal-basic-income---the-way-to-a-healthier-nation-pt1/ Background Note: this post is written with a UK centric view, for the collective health of all it’s citizens, however can be easily adapted more generally for other countries too. This article is part 1 of the series Universal Basic Income - the way to a healthier nation!, as well as being part of a wide ranging series of Grown Up Chats articles coming to you in future! This part of the Series focuses on the what it is and the why we need it. https://mhasl.me/donation-policy/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/donation-policy/ Donation Policy You are 100% free to read the content of this site with no requirement for any form of donation, we just merely give you a quick and easy way to do so if you wanted to. Therefore, if you do choose to make a donation, you can do so directly to the author as listed in their profile box at the top of every page, much like services like “buy me a coffee”, cash app or a Patreon subscription for any content that you have liked. https://mhasl.me/2023/08/22/flow-state-and-what-it-has-to-do-with-bruce-lees-famous-water-quote/ Tue, 22 Aug 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2023/08/22/flow-state-and-what-it-has-to-do-with-bruce-lees-famous-water-quote/ TL:DR (To Long Didn’t Read) Water, we are, the flow state, we must become! (in voice of Yoda) We can freeze, boil or simmer at just the right temperature. Each of these states can and does affect our mental & physical health differently. We each have a slightly different optimal Flow State where we feel happiest, enjoy life the most and importantly perform the best we can. We also have differing and complex dependency trees, all getting upset differently when we aren’t able to stay in our optimal flow state. https://mhasl.me/2023/07/31/your-mental-health-and-using-ai-to-write-or-talk-about-it/ Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2023/07/31/your-mental-health-and-using-ai-to-write-or-talk-about-it/ This will be a short & opinionated post, and as such should be something that you decide on whether you agree with or not. This will just be about using targeted AI’s for aiding you in understanding and then discussing your Mental Health & not about general use of AI’s. That topic will be covered in a separate post. Should I use AI to help me write/talk about my Mental Health? https://mhasl.me/2023/07/27/the-power-of-swearing/ Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2023/07/27/the-power-of-swearing/ This article is part of the series The Power Of that looks into many aspects of life and how they can be powerful in helping with individual management & maintenance of mental health. Warning - This is a post about swearing intended to educate, without resorting to use of swearing, even though the author was incredibly tempted to do so The Power Of Swearing This really should be a short post that, for those of you reading that are against the use of emotive language including swear words, also known as use of profanity, should perhaps read on and have a rethink, and you know perhaps give swearing a go and see how you feel afterwards, as I can tell you now, you’ll feel better for it. https://mhasl.me/privacy-policy/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/privacy-policy/ Privacy Policy This site is built using Hugo, with a customised theme and currently hosted on Azure Static Web sites, we do not collect collect any per page views, which is by current design choices those this is something that we many change in future & we reserve the right to so up as long as we update this privacy policy. As such we do not get a total on which pages are viewed so have no inclination as to which posts are most popular, if they are even popular at all which is by current design choices. https://mhasl.me/2023/06/05/pain-its-a-personal-journey/ Mon, 05 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2023/06/05/pain-its-a-personal-journey/ As someone that’s been through many types of pain, and seen many go through their own pains, I can say that it really really does. But pain is a personal journey, that whilst we may be able to sympathise and even empathise with those going through pain, I don’t think we can truly be able to say that we know exactly what a person is going through when they are dealing with, even if we may have gone through similar things to them. https://mhasl.me/2021/01/29/finding-the-balance-technology-mental-health/ Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2021/01/29/finding-the-balance-technology-mental-health/ Technology has helped keep many friends, families, schools, organisations & even governments stay connected and be able to function during the COVID19 Pandemic at mostly near pre-pandemic levels & in some cases beyond pre-pandemic levels. However, it is safe to say that even leading up to the pandemic there had been lots to consider about “Finding the Balance” between what is a good amount of technology & what is likely to be a detrimental amount of technology. https://mhasl.me/2020/09/04/speaking-with-don-jones-on-perspectives-in-tech-listen-your-mental-health/ Fri, 04 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2020/09/04/speaking-with-don-jones-on-perspectives-in-tech-listen-your-mental-health/ Back in May I was lucky enough to be invited onto a Podcast called Perspectives In TecH and had chance to chat to former host Don Jones. For those of you that don’t know Don, he is a 20+ year IT Veteran and is well known for leading the way with a Technical Community that I got the chance to be involved in. You can listen to what we had to say over on his podcast https://mhasl.me/2020/03/29/an-intro-to-the-swimmingpoolanalogy-going-for-a-swim-in-the-pool-of-mental-health/ Sun, 29 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2020/03/29/an-intro-to-the-swimmingpoolanalogy-going-for-a-swim-in-the-pool-of-mental-health/ As you can likely tell from the title of this post, I am going to go into the detail of what I think is a novel new way to attempt to describe how various states of mental health can and do affect us all differently. Firstly I think it is important to get across a very simple, but often overlooked point when it comes to mental heath, and that is that mental health is something that we all have, much like the blood in our veins, the air in our lungs or the bacteria in our guts. https://mhasl.me/2019/04/18/an-intro-to-our-new-blogger-gem-hill/ Thu, 18 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2019/04/18/an-intro-to-our-new-blogger-gem-hill/ Who am I? I am Gem Hill, I’m in my early 30s and work in Manchester as a Senior Software Tester at the BBC. I met Ryan at a mental health meet up and was really interested in the idea of mhasl.me as I spend some of my non-work time talking about mental health. I’ve got a podcast (Innerpod.co.uk), and do talks about mental health at meetups and conferences. You can see one of my talks here (you’ll need a free account on the site): https://www. https://mhasl.me/2019/02/21/feb-21st-is-mental-health-nurse-appreciation-day/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2019/02/21/feb-21st-is-mental-health-nurse-appreciation-day/ Today is Feb 21st and it is Mental Health Nurse Appreciation Day which you can find out more about over at https://mhnursesday.wordpress.com/ and you can have a look at some of the posts being made by following their twitter account https://twitter.com/MHnursesday and also these hashtags MHNurseDay , MHNursesDay, MentalHealthNursesDay I would also reading this blog https://mentalhealthnurseabby.wordpress.com/2019/02/21/why-mental-health-nursing/ and following Abby https://twitter.com/MHnurseabby and also check out this post https://caras-corner.com/2019/02/21/why-i-became-a-mental-health-nurse/ by https://twitter.com/CaraLisette If you think you might be interested in a career as a Mental Health Nurse then I would recommend having a read through the below links https://mhasl.me/2019/02/21/the-strains-that-sleepdeprivation-can-take-on-your-mentalhealth-physical-health-pt1/ Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2019/02/21/the-strains-that-sleepdeprivation-can-take-on-your-mentalhealth-physical-health-pt1/ This is the first part in a small series into The Strains that Sleep Deprivation & Sleep Disturbances can take on your Mental Health & Physical Health We all know the importance of a good nights sleep, and the health benefits this brings us, right? If not then I recommend you have a quick read of this article that explains just a few of the benefits that a good nights sleep can bring you. https://mhasl.me/2019/02/07/its-timetotalk-but-its-also-timetowrite/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://mhasl.me/2019/02/07/its-timetotalk-but-its-also-timetowrite/ Whilst today Feb 7th is #TimeToTalk Day, a day that symbolises the need for people to talk about their Mental Health, this also raises a perhaps unspoken point around the need to write about mental health as much as it does to talk about it. Writing things down is a really good way of being able to process complex things, like mental health, or a really difficult mathematical equation or even just something that you want to say to someone.