Faces By Grace #5

[Airy-fairy]

To be fair maybe her therapist is running Saturday appointments to catch up after closing for Covid-19 or maybe they do emergency appointments. We don't know what therapist she sees therefore we don't know their hours or how they operate.

Tying to get a therapist, any therapist, a hospital bed, or even an ambulance for mental health issues, even an attempted suicide, is non existent at the weekends, and that was before Covid. Both in public and private system.
How do I know? Because I'd have given my kidneys to get help for a loved one, several times, over the last two years.
If Grace is in the low, dark, deep place she says she is, she wouldn't, or couldn't get to her phone, let alone go speaking on a story.

 

[ela87]

Grace is an obnoxious, self-absorbed brat and I've unfollowed. She literally has ZERO self-awareness from being pandered to all her life. Get a job and a normal life and you'll feel better but you might have to buy your own takeaways.

As an aside, while I have had very anxious times and low periods in my life, thankfully I have only suffered one what I would consider to be a panic attack in my life. I'll set out my experience here so that it might help someone else as I genuinely didn't know what wad happening to me. I woke up one morning (during a VERY stressful period) and sat up in bed. I never get sick but felt very nauseous all of a sudden like I was going to faint or puke. I stood up to go to the bathroom and as long as I live I'll never forget the feeling. My heart started beating so fast thst I honestly thought I was having a heart attack and that my time was up and I'm not exaggerating. It was so loud in my ear and I could hear nothing else and I was shivering/shaking uncontrollably. I was alone in the house and went and sat on the bathroom floor. It was so bad I actually had 999 dialled to ring on my phone as I honestly didnt know what was happening. I just started to breathe and it stopped all of a sudden after about 2 minutes. I wasnt right for days after. I'll never forget that morning and the fear I was in and feel utterly disgusted by Grace. On down days or teary days I could never compare the two. If this happens to anyone just try and stay calm breathe deeply and it will pass for you x

 

[Beebles]

Do we need to nominate someone then to filter the stories so we dont all give her views

at this stage penny’s is probably sold out of the gear she’s that late.

This is what I think. One person screenshot and record everything and post it here, she won’t get the views then tbh I think she’s lost it. Very few sponsorships. The last few were tin foil and frozen peas. the writing is on the wall.

 

[Beebles]

do agree with you mostly about how much she plays up her mental health problems but just one thing slightly problematic in your comment and if she is suffering with anxiety is that, you 100% can be rock bottom and then back out hours later like a different person. I suffer really awfully with anxiety and on my bad days I can't get out of bed but on other days I can have moments of both. There's been mornings I wake up and literally cannot function but that evening I can be out with friends who would be none the wiser. Over the whole of December I was really struggling and did not want to be alive at all and my friends when I told them recently were shocked because I'd be completely normal with them. While I understand and agree with you that her content could be damaging to younger followers who don't bounce back as quick and wonder what's wrong, mental health is a spectrum and just because someone is anxious/depressed/whatever doesn't mean they have to be glum always which is a common misconception.
The one thing I have a slight issue with is how much on her off days she can be on her phone and speaking about it all so rationally because believe me when I'm in the midst of anxiety attacks or feeling bad, I can't do anything/speak to anyone.

I completely get you. I’m the same. I’ve been hospitalised and none of my friends have been the wiser. some people can mask it well. What doesn’t sit right with me with grace is that she seems to be manipulating her audience, using MH to her advantage and exaggerating things. She’s painting one picture for her followers which doesn’t seem to match her personal life. She’s not masking anything. She’s putting it all out there and making herself out to be immobilised with anxiety. She’ll cancel obligations that don’t interest her and say it’s MH but if there’s a free face mask or lunch then she’s perfectly fine. It’s selective anxiety. She wouldn’t come on and be honest and say she needed her friends as a distraction which we can all understand. No, she has to post sad selfies from the day before and a big spiel. It’s like when she was saying how healthy and clean she’s eating and doing all these amazing things but was spotted in Marley park with a hotdog and a can of coke. Just own it grace, no one would give a shite if you were just honest.
She’s also sending out dangerous mixed messages and advice for her followers with MH.

 

[Andipop20]

I started watching her story last night in bed, but couldn’t finish and said I’d watch this morning....nope, can’t do it to myself....
I too suffer from mental health, namely anxiety disorder. My mum had a brain haemorrhage 4 years ago, and it all started from there.....some days when I have a panic/anxiety attack, I am literally floored for the week.... THE WEEK. I am in better control of my mental health lately so the episodes aren’t as regular , but do ya know what? It boils my p**s watching her Go on the way she is. I honestly don’t want to be mean and say she doesn’t suffer, because she might, but maybe she’s had such a sheltered molly coddled life, she actually believes she is very bad with it? She’s clearly surrounded by yes people all her life and maybe never was held accountable for anything When she was younger? Hence the failure to address critics head on? I don’t know, I’m trying to rationalise here, because it’s not fucking normal and makes people like me and others who do genuinely SUFFER, feel like we are doing something wrong when we can’t just go and sit on a manky blanket and eat a bag of chips havin the lols an hour after an attack.

 

[Kissmeimirish]

That’s how Grace pronounces boot

Oh thank fuck for that I was away googling thinking I was an asshat

 

[Kissmeimirish]

This mask debate baffles me, genuinely would love to know why people are making a drama about not wearing one. I don't mean just grace. We need more influencers promoting masks and social distancing.

They're too busy promoting pick a mix sweets and voduz straighteners.

 

[J.BFletcher]

Every single time she says she’s having panic attacks it anxiety she gets a ton of praise people telling her how strong and amazing she is, it has to be addictive to the personality type Grace is. I personally think she just finds it very hard to cope normal life. AliDee has three baby’s and a small girl too and seems to take it all in her stride she’s not having daily breakdowns like Grace.

To be fair Alidee is raking in the spons aswell! No normal parent can afford triplets so she gets a lot of free shit! It’s sad to think that If I had multiples I’d have to set up a blog because I couldn’t afford three newborns at the same time! I can barely afford one! Let’s not forget either all these pals have grown up in the same area and maybe Alidee and Dominique actually work! Denise does too actually but my point is they’re all blaggers! It’s like a more acceptable form of social welfare!

 

[Airy-fairy]

Ya she should have but it wasn’t mandatory.. But I’ve seen a comment now saying she was actually in there in Tuesday so therefore she should have been wearing a mask! Look I wasn’t trying to stick up for her I just - going by the video - assumed (which a lot of comments all over tattle are-assuming) that it was the week before as the shop assistant was not wearing a mask! She should have been wearing one to! Hopefully Grace will learn from this that she was in the wrong and as an influencer needs to be seen to be doing the right thing! But no doubt like Nearly every other instagrammer in Ireland she won’t.. the sooner they bring in fines the better imo

Can I just add in graces stories yesterday after she came out of that thing she was at she said she was going to therapy later in the day so the pic she posted this morning was from yesterday. She pretty much said it herself! What the issue with that is I don’t know!

The issue with that is, you don't get a therapist appointment in a Sat afternoon, even under a private scheme, or even in a hospital setting. Unless she's seeing a quack.
And then she goes out for a stroll this morning, and has a coffee.
I can assure you, there is no way someone from such a dark place and after an apparently mammoth amount of panic attacks, goes out with the buggy and child and goes for a coffee the following morning. And her partner wouldn't allow it either if she claims to be as fragile as she is. They'd be sitting on edge, minding her every move, there for every tear.

 

[Wentback]

Grace is full of it, she’s using anxiety & panic attacks to get away with been lazy bitch, she doesn’t want real life she wants picnics & trips away with no kids, Mammy & sister to clean her house & watch her kids & crisps bending backwards accommodating her every nap!!!
I haven’t followed her in awhile but have looked at her page the last few days, her days are numbered now & she knows it, she starts something & never ever finishes it, just look at the book club

 

[JakeMcEvoy]

I think grace is mixing up an anxiety attack with a panic attack. She/people discussing her keep referring to them as panic attacks, whereas people have correctly pointed out that she has recovered from them fairly quickly and they seem to be in response to triggers rather than spontaneous. Hence the lack of "panic attacks" while away without the kids. Panic attacks don't work that way. Anxiety attacks however can be in response to a trigger- i.e. overwhelmed by the kids, fearing the level of backlash online etc. And while they can sometimes have physical traits similar to that of a panic attack, they can be handled a lot easier and are not as physically taxing. A panic attack can literally feel like the onset of a heart attack. An anxiety attack feels like adrenaline pumping through your body and heart racing, but it subsides quite quickly and because it is in response to a trigger, and the onset is gradual, it is a lot easier to manage and diffuse. Panic attacks feel like a genuine medical emergency which obviously then heightens the anxiety and lessens the ability to control them. I am not sure if grace/others know there is a difference, and may think the two are interchangeable when discussing her anxiety, which leads to inconsistencies. I dont follow her enough to know if it is her using incorrect terms when she is referring to these attacks or if some people discussing her are assuming panic attacks are the same as anxiety attacks, so please do let me know if it is her using the terms incorrectly, id be interested to know.

Either that or she is just outright lying

 

[That_mad_one]

I've just seen this.

 

[Daisy03]

If Grace is suffering from anxiety and her mental health then she should take a long term break from social media and reassess everything. I don't want to be an arm chair psychologist but she said before that her issues years ago started when a boyfriend dumped her. Her page is losing followers and she is facing a lot of (warranted in most cases) criticism. She cant take rejection and that seems to be her problem.

 

[Janeymac]

I’m calling it now. She’s on the way out of being an Instagram Influencer. Her time is up and she knows it.

 

[cocacola]

Poor Sienna! Her wardrobe is now the linen closet. Could Grace not have freed up some space in that office/perfume room/bag room or whatever it is? Seriously????? How selfish can you be?

 

[Letsplay24]

Some man for one man, it’s two fucking shelves not the Leaning tower of Pisa he obviously does sweet fuck all if he needs that much praise for hanging two shelves

 

[Beebles]

I wouldn’t be giving out about b/f at all. If you can do it, it’s amazing. I b/f and it was hell. I stopped a few weeks after my wee girl was born. and I felt like a utter failure which caused PND.
I honestly think grace can’t deal with being an adult but if she b/f for a long time, it’s something she actually succeed at.

I agree, BF is stigmatised and it needs to stop tbh. However, grace went on about her crusty nipples and complained so much that I noticed on a few groups that she had actually turned women off it. She didn’t do anything for BF as a whole. She actually was detrimental to it. She also went on and on about how amazing she was for it despite using formula which she mentioned once or twice briefly and on a live. Nothing wrong with formula or combination feeding, but there is something wrong with her making herself out to be a full time BF “warrior” as she called herself while using formula in the background.

 

[Onlyhereforthegoss]

€70 for a wishy washy group 4 hours with zen Jen - more like cha-ching I’d say. She doesn’t know why she’s ‘drawn’ to helping people but look charge them €70 for their baby loss & infertility & you’ll feel better. This is why she’s pals with Grabby

I'm all for more alternative therapies. I swore by acupuncture on both my pregnancies but this just seems .... opportunistic and predatory. Women and men at their most vulnerable and desperate.

 

[#obsssessed]

#unfollowed
I just watched her stories about meditation and honestly kant kope her any longer, how can u seriously say you’ve ‘suffered’ for 15 years???
It’s just the same spiel out of her stupid face ALL the time

 

[Carolebaskinsfurrball]

Her problem is the fact real life isn’t matching her illusions. She’s the spoilt child so when she comes in the pecking order now upsets her.