During Mental Health Awareness Week, Don't Carry It Alone are reflecting on the connection between chronic illness and mental well-being.

We understand that coping with a long-term chronic condition can significantly impact one's mental health. Don't Carry It Alone seek to raise much-needed awareness of the realities of living with a chronic illness. Below are a number of 'triggers', that can result in mental health struggles.

Training for a marathon is not easy.

Training for a marathon, whilst managing a chronic illness, is really not easy.

I have had a lot of questions about how my Endometriosis impacts my training. I would be lying if I said that it didn’t.