About Me

I'm Karen Davies and welcome to my blogsite, a place where I dive into the depths of my mental health and discuss the healing power I have discovered in the embrace of my cold water swimming adventures.

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We live in a world where expertise is never more than a button press away. A whole stratosphere of information is at our fingertips. Social media vomits up opinion on a myriad subjects every second of every day. Influencers influence. Politicians politicise. Experts offer their expertise often unsolicited. There’s no getting away from it. The world is laden with information.

 

This is my website! It’s a foray into the unknown for me. I’m dipping my toes into the waters of self-expression.  It’s called the Swimming Detective simply because I swim and I’m a former Detective!!!! Simples! But I am no expert on either the art of swimming or the art of Detecting. However, I am an expert on me……. I am an expert on my own experience of Mental illness. I can only speak from the depths of my own journey through PTSD. How I have experienced my own breakdown. How I have experienced my own diagnosis. How I have experienced living with the fall out on a day-to-day basis.

 

The opinions I offer here are NOT based on ANY expertise whatsoever, but they are based on what’s happened to me.  I will sometimes share things that have been a part of my experience, but there you have it, you see? They will be part of MY experience exclusively. I will share things around what I have found helpful for ME. But I urge anybody struggling with anything on any level whether it be physical or mental to seek professional help.