Making progress, slowly.

Apologies for the lack of blog posts over the past week. I've kind of gone from posting 5 days a week to posting absolutely nothing. It has been a particularly trying week though this week. My partner had to be admitted to hospital for yet another operation on Tuesday so my focus has really been…

Making a decision

Last Friday I made a decision. Well, if truth be told I made quite a few decisions last Friday but this one decision in particular was one that I had been mulling over for rather a long time. So much so that I had already made this decision multiple times prior to Friday, each time…

Strange. Ridiculous. Unbearable.

A bit of a strange day today. I'm feeling somewhat sleep deprived I think. I guess that serves me right for staying up to a ridiculous hour, (1:00am) to listen to a radio show and then having to get up at the crack of dawn to play chauffeur to my partner because I happened to…

Debunking the misconceptions

With Mental Health Awareness Week drawing to a close in the UK I thought I would round off this week of blogging by putting to rights some of the most common misconceptions that surround those who suffer with depression and other mental illnesses. 1. We are just feeling sad or sorry for ourselves So this…

Thinking about the future

I'm at a bit of a loss as to what to blog about today. It's strange because usually a few ideas for material spark in my mind while I'm doing the most ordinary and mundane of things. But today, nothing. You could say I've got a bit of writers block I suppose. My mind doesn't…

Why Twitter is good for my mental health

I've been feeling a little bit more positive of late. Yes believe it or not just because I suffer with a mental illness such as depression it doesn't mean that I'm permanently miserable and spending every day feeling sorry for myself. Far from it. Sure I have those periods where I feel that the world…