No Quick Fixes for Mental Illness video

Here’s Rethink’s new campaign, called, “No Quick Fixes for Mental Illness”. It’s a video featuring the voices of real people with mental illness: For those who may struggle to hear, there’s a transcript here: http://www.rethink.org/about_mental_illness/personal_stories_blogs_forum/no_quick_fixes_cam.html I plug not only because the first voice (the halting Northern Irish one) is mine! I like this video for [...]

The Last Goodbye: Comedy fundraiser, 15th December

In honour of the comedian, Mackenzie Taylor, who died last year, there will be a comedy fundraiser in aid of Mind on December 15th-  Here are the details: We are putting on a comedy night to celebrate his life and raise money for MIND, It would be wonderful if you could all come down a [...]

New Year, New You?

Hello chaps! I’d like to pick your lovely brains on something. I’m writing an article for One in Four on the subject of the New Year.  I celebrate the New Year (capitals and all) as a means of a sort of bookmark. “Done!” It used to be a celebration of, “Holy shit, I’m STILL ALIVE! [...]

Reasons Why I Am Bloody Amazing

…or at least passable.  I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately, self attacking thoughts being very loud indeed and just wanting to sleep my nuts off.  Ah, winter! Hello old friend. Anyway, I could make this privately but that means I’d end up at about 2 before starting to scribble cocks.  Also, I [...]

My Family and Christmas

I’m looking forward to Christmas.  I have found it increasingly less fraught as the years pass.  My eating problems aren’t so bad now. And I guess it means less.  It’s stopped being this magical thing and is now just a welcome respite from normal life, a chance to eat and sit fatly on a sofa [...]

The Recovery Truth

I didn’t realise my last post came across so negatively!

The Recovery Myth

I just found this: I wrote it in June. It came to my mind because I keep forgetting that as a person I will have mood swings, and as a person with dodgy moods, even more so. And I fear being mad again, when newlife, largely lonely, is hurtling towards me. Career, kids, marriage (I [...]