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Hey, a quick intro to me, I am Dan and this is my psychology / personal experience blog page

I am the founder of SAPUK, an event organizer for The Semicolon Project, a Psychology student, a mum :), to a child, dog and kitten – I am undergoing the diagnosis of being a Neuro-divergent, specifically towards ADHD, with mild dyslexic and depression, i have a focus and attention disability, which means i struggle to retain focus in a specific area for too long with some other wild traits. But there are many pro’s to being divergent <3

I am a Suicidologist, i also have membership amongst the American Association of Suicide, I have been a recent part of Lancashire Suicide Prevention group, i am level 2 trained in counselling skills, i have my level 6 in psychology seeing most aspects of psychology being taught within my levels, currently progressing with my level 7, i have my understanding in self harm, Suicide first Aid, Mental Health First Aid, mental health in adolescence, mental health in the workplace and schools, i also hold a DBS, have my safeguarding level 2, with children and vulnerable adults, and much suicide prevention understanding, and my education will continue;

This #blog will always link to #Psychology so it will in retrospect be a #psychologyblog 

You should always take pictures, videos and everything else, i love pictures but i also love writing, i feel as though writing is something i have always kind of fallen into keeping some form of journal since being a child, i love the passion and feeling that can be brought into writing;

I will try and picture it up for ease on the eyes, but its a blog… But Hey, here is side me

Click the menu (above) for links to specific categories but please be warned as some blogs contain trigger warnings – mainly the SAPUK blogs!

Some picture are links to specific blogs too โœŒ๏ธ

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  • 5 stages of grief

    Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance Understanding the five processes through grief and trauma This understanding is from personal experience and research. Trauma can appear in any capacity, it can look like a loss or a physical trauma, if it affects you negatively in a large capacity for an extensive amount of time, this is trauma.…

    5 stages of grief
  • ‘It comes in threes’

    โ€˜It comes in threesโ€™ Trigger Warning – ** I hope you are okay, if you are not, please do reach out. This blog is about the saying, โ€˜it comes in threeโ€™sโ€™, referring to the misfortunate luck of enduring three bad experiences within a short period of time. I think firstly I must say that I…

    ‘It comes in threes’
  • Moving on from Trauma

    Moving on from Trauma Dan Shaw – Suicidologist Trigger Warning โ€“ Talks of Suicide. Hey, hope everyone is okay? If you are not, please reach out ๐Ÿ˜Š – @suicideapuk                                                                                                        So, this is my first blog in a while โ˜น, I have been on with writing shorts, poems and I have so much more physical now…

    Moving on from Trauma

& I will write about anything and everything – much loveย 

Be kind, show off your imperfections, and tell your story.

#bekind #behippie

Peace&Love