The third person in the relationship

I've started running. Now there's a sentence I never bought I'd say. Along with ' my 32 year old boyfriend has cancer' and 'I actively enjoy mushrooms'. . The running works in tandem with the writing as part of my efforts to seize some kind of control of the situation and give myself the best shot of being a positive contributor to my partner's (our) ordeal. Much as I always try to deny it, exercise really is good…

Let me start by saying I have had real reservations about writing a mental health blog. Whilst one side of me fully supports the case that we must all come together to overthrow the taboos around mental health, the other (less developed) side of me finds it all a bit 'teenage cliche'. I am not the kind of person who suffers from 'mental health issues', much less writes about them. I am a 27 year old woman with a good…