A Day in the Life
A snapshot of the lives, and wellbeing of people who experience mental health difficulties in England
A Day in the Life was a year-long project to collect the everyday experiences of people who experience mental health difficulties in England. People who experience a mental health difficulty signed up to share with the world what their day was like on four calendar dates across the length of the project.
People didn’t have to use their real names and could be as anonymous as they wanted to be. They didn’t need to have a diagnosis or be currently receiving treatment. 872 individual days were submitted.
The everyday life of people with mental health difficulties has tended to remain hidden. Together we can change that by sharing what makes life better and what makes life worse. The first day in the life was Friday 7th November 2014. The second day was February 10th 2015. The third was May 10th 2015. The final day was August 26th 2015.
In March 2016, Social Spider CIC and Centre for Mental Health published an analysis of what 782 of the days submitted told us about what affected people’s wellbeing living with mental health difficulty.
Click the categories above to see what people had to say about their days.
Add a day!If you’re ready, sign up to share your days. Find out more about how the project works and what to expect by reading the how-to guide.
Latest Days
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I am on holiday this week, much needed after a 3 month stint at work. I am physically and emotionally tired but am now 5…
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Today has been a very memorable day. For all the wrong reasons, sadly. In fact: emotionally and mentally it has been the most difficult day…
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I haven’t been very productive lately and had planned to make a significant dent in my to do list but it was not to be.…
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Title; Selective Mutism Hiya everyone, I didn’t really do much on the new Day In Your Life day, I watched telly with my mum and…
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The alarm’s gone off, I’m so groggy. It was a fitful sleep last night and I finally woke up holding my hair up as though…
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Get up with the alarm clock at 7. I’m doing voluntary work today, as I have every Wednesday for the last few weeks. I’ve been…
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I wake as usual, fearful, after about four hours sleep. Fears about serious and long-standing important things I have to do about home maintenance, and…
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Alone and hopeless would probably be the best words to describe Wednesday. In honesty, that is a lot of my days nowadays. Things don’t…
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I woke up after a fitful night of brief periods of sleep punctuated by anxious thoughts and fears about returning to work in a week’s…
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Ugh. Today’s been rough. I’ve felt completely drained all day. I woke up late but found it extremely hard to acclimatise. I’m not sure whether…