It’s Saturday again and time for me to share some fantastic sex positive content from the sex blogging community. I’ve been struggling with my mental health for a while now, and as we’re nearing the end of winter I know so many of you are struggling too. I want to show you that you are not alone, and offer some solace and support. So this week’s #SOSS will be a little different. Each post offers a personal and unique insight into what it’s like to struggle with mental health, sometimes in relation to sex, but not always. These are tough things to write about and I have the utmost respect for the bloggers who are able to. Rather than summarise what are obviously very personal pieces, I will just leave you with each title and author. I feel more comfortable this way, as I would hate to misinterpret something so important.
So here we go. Click each title to reach the original post(s).
Sex and Depression with JoEllen Notte: Articles, Interviews, Panel Discussions, Resources, and more (JoEllen Notte has written many articles about sex and depression, this link is to a page that collates them all)
Sex and Depression – An Impossible Choice. By Candy Snatch
Suicide, mental health, Movember 2016. By Submissives
Coming Out As Borderline – Sexual Self Reflection. By Aurora Glory
The Bipolar Blogger: Productivity Tips From a Manic Mess. By Kate Solan of Girly Juice
Sex and sertraline part 1: masturbation. By Girl on the Net
Article: Life Goals For When Life Seems Like Too Much. By Emmeline Peaches
Living with Anxiety – Blogger Insecurities. By Echo Explores
Depression, 45, 40: Time For Some Honesty. By Dangerous Lilly
The Push and Pull of Depression and Anxiety. By Kayla Lords
Making Up for Lost Orgasms, pt. 1: Body Image and Depression. By Phallophile Reviews
Dildos and Depression. By Taryn of Ace in the Hole
and then it all started to fall apart again. By SassyCat3000
That ‘stiff upper lip’ thing. By Luv Bunny of Down the bunny rabbit hole
Mental Health/Illness and Sexuality. By Livvy Libertine
Erotica & Depression. By fckleberryfinn
Struggling – a personal post on depression. By horny geek girl
Sex Not Stigma: Using My Sexuality to Manage My Mental Health. By Amy of coffee and kink
Your mental/emotional wellbeing. By Sexpotential
MENTAL HEALTH, HOSPITAL STAYS, & MEDICATION // LET’S TALK ABOUT IT. By Wendy of the wench works
Miss Jezebella 
Thank you Jezebella! Going to book-mark this and visit the various posts as and when.
Gosh haven’t a lot of my favourite ‘sex bloggers’ been able to offer advice about diverse aspects of mental health? Great work to collate it all together. xx
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I love that you have published such a post – we are individuals and our mental health problems are just so – and would like to add mine – it’s important and needs to be read 😉 even thou it has not resulted in a mental health problem for me, I feel it is relevant
http://ifsexmatters.co.uk/time/
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Thanks so much for sharing this post May, I am amazed by the calm compersition you were able to achieve in such an emotional topic. It is definitely a very worthwhile addition to the list xx
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This is a great idea. I’ve been trying to come up with an idea to connect all the sex bloggers that write about mental health. Perhaps a hashtag such as #sb4mh (sex bloggers 4 mental health) in addition to your #notalone and my #bfmh (blog for mental health)
I was thinking maybe using the hashtag weekly similar to #SOSS on Saturdays. I feel that there should be some form of unity among sex bloggers who write about their mental illness effecting their sex life in addition to everyday activities. I wanted to write for a mental health website but because my blog was contained adult material I couldn’t. I felt embarrassed and dirty and then I got pissed off. Maybe just having that as an umbrella (sb4mh) could be able to included everyone to writes about sex & mental health.
I even came up with a pledge for it….what do you think? I could start with your list and hopefully it can grow from there.
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This sounds like a great idea: it would be fantastic to connect people with me ta health & sex bloggers. Let me know how I can help.
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Love to read about BeingKinky.
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