GROGGY
I have Restless Legs Syndrome. I rarely talk about it. It sounds like a benign and trivial condition everyone experiences…
Stalked by Demons | Guarded by Angels
I have Restless Legs Syndrome. I rarely talk about it. It sounds like a benign and trivial condition everyone experiences…
We’re born to be nurtured. Unlike most of the animal kingdom, little humans begin life utterly dependent on their caregivers.…
Food tastes like failure. I don’t savour beautiful textures and flavours. I never mindfully and sensuously nibble delicacies, inhaling aromas…
Despondency. It’s an unpleasant feeling. I’m currently wallowing around in misery, feeling sorry for myself but struggling to find the…
I don’t know who I am… I know the core values I embrace. I know the person I’d like to…
Anyone who has never experienced mental health issues, probably finds this to be a staggering question – why wouldn’t you…
There’s a war in my head. Some days it gets so loud in there, it gives me a headache. A…
Today I want to sleep. I want to go to sleep and never wake up. To luxuriate in the endless…
I can’t know for sure how anxiety manifests for other people – and to be honest, it’s only in recent…
And if as a society, we nurtured those in the earlier stages of illness, perhaps those “high functioning” addicts and…
My psychologist talked about recovery, and I said (amongst other things), what’s in it for me? Which sounds appallingly self-interested…
Ahh… Joy! Today, for the first time in a very long time, I feel the...
What my body didn’t know when it was born, was that it wasn’t the “right” shape. It wasn’t the “right”…
I don’t know if love makes all things easy, but I do believe that combined with faith and hope, it…
I may be living in a minefield and the recovery process feels thick, viscous and horrifyingly distressing, but that unknown…