M.E (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis)

Saving Myself and All That Jazz

Why is it that just because we suffer with an invisible disease do we have to constantly prove our mental health status? Or it goes the other way round for people who ARE mentally unwell, they have to prove they are mentally unwell enough to receive help or understanding! It’s ludicrous! Then there is the

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Getting the Balance Right

The delicate balance between a crash and a success. It’s a fine line and can feel like you are walking a tightrope but it’s a tightrope that persists to be with you every second of everyday. Each person has some form of a tightrope but it is very different for those who are chronically or

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Press Release For “A Girl Behind Dark Glasses” By Hashtag Press

Press Release London, United Kingdom, Monday 29th January 2018Hashtag Press acquires ‘A Girl Behind Dark Glasses’ A bitterly painful, moving but ultimately inspiring story about one girl’s battle against severe M.E.Jessica Taylor-Bearman shares her inner-most thoughts and real-time emotions – adapted from her diary growing up as a teenager in South-East England – as she

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Jessica, Nellie

My Ultimate Question

Ever since I was a little girl I dreamed of having a family. A child. Children. Unconditional love for a little person. Even when I got ill, I was naive because I always held onto the fact that I would just get better, that is what doctors do, right?! I held onto this idea through

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Unrest Premiere and Parliamentary Screening…

Back in 2012, after seeing The World of One Room on YouTube and Facebook, Jen Brea approached me to see if I’d like to feature in a film documentary, (at the time called Canary in a Coal mine) about M.E. I agreed and what a journey it has been! It was renamed Unrest to give

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For the First Time….

Three years ago, I started a project called #FortheFirstTime and I documented my firsts since I had become unwell on my Facebook page The World of One Room. The experiences I was having was as if I had started life again. When you are seriously chronically unwell, it’s important to not lose hope of what

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