Day #4: Bullet pointing a (bad) day… [Part 2]
Previously, in Day #4: Bullet pointing a (bad) day… Addy woke up feeling refreshed after two hours sleep, wrote a blog post for four hours, deleted it at the bequest of an auditory hallucination then...
View ArticleFreaks and (Scrabble) Geeks
Seven by thrig, on Flickr One of the many words I dislike being called is a ‘freak’. It’s far from being the most disturbing word I’ve ever heard to describe me. In fact, some of the insults that have...
View ArticleAddy and the Day of Pure Evil
Something many people have problems with are anniversaries. Not the happy, fuzzy-bunny-feeling filled anniversaries of marriages, birthdays and first sexual experiences, but the miserable,...
View ArticleBut who can remember pain, once it’s over?
East Beach, Port Fairy © Addy “But who can remember pain, once it’s over? All that remains of it is a shadow, not in the mind even, in the flesh. Pain marks you, but too deep to see.” ~ Margaret...
View ArticleSunday Stealing: Sell your bad memories here
Welcome back to Sunday Stealing. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent...
View ArticleDays 12 & 13: Diagnostic criteria (and all that jazz!)
Bipolar | Unknown Artist (found on Google Images) For the last few days – ever since Friday’s anniversary of 2007’s major suicide attempt – I have been feeling very flat and out of sorts. Focusing has...
View ArticleDays 27 & 28: Take the good with the bad
Because I’ve been a little behind with the 30 Days of Mental Illness Awareness Challenge, I have decided not to think about the answers to days 27 and 28 all that much. Instead, I’ve decided to...
View ArticleAnd so it begins…
*Trigger Warning* ~ Please note that this post may be triggering to some ~ Every year it’s the same. The shops will begin filling with sparkly tinsel, oversized boxes of chocolate and all manner of...
View ArticleWell, I was doing okay…
In the lead up to Christmas I had several conversations with my support worker over how I could keep myself safe during this insidious time of year, there was the thirteen heart-felt tips I prepared...
View ArticleThere has to be more to life than this…
As January trundles toward its inevitable conclusion, I continue to slip further into the abyss. My days have taken on a heart-crushing routine of monotonous tedium (wake up-housework-kill time-cry-go...
View ArticleThe hope that tomorrow will be better
So far today has been a day that could be best described as ‘not good’ but most aptly described as ‘effing awful’. It all started yesterday afternoon when I had an appointment with my support worker....
View ArticleThere She Goes My Beautiful World
Hello everyone, Andrew’s had a bad day today so I’m taking it upon myself to cheer him up. He feels guilty that he didn’t go to the gym this afternoon. He said he was going to go on a Monday, on a...
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