Several months ago now, I told you all about the schedule I’d been trying to work to on a daily basis, and how much it had done for me. I also told you about the days where it didn’t work so much. I’ve been following that schedule in some form …
Unexpected
I have spent many years learning to be prepared learning to plan things out and leave nothing to chance.
8 Ways To Support Someone With Depression
In my many years of experience with depression, I’ve been incredibly fortunate to have a lot of people around me who have not only tried to support me, but have gone out of their way to make sure they’re supporting me in the right way. Not everyone is this lucky. …
Things I Make & Where They Are
I make a lot of things now, and so it seemed about time that I do a roundup here on the blog of what I make and where. Let’s start with the obvious: I make blog posts! The schedule here on the blog is normal posts on Monday and Friday, …
Almost
let’s destroy endings. let’s live forever in the perpetual almost. where there’s a world of what might be clawing to be heard by our hearts where anything is possible because everything is lying just the other side of a leap that we will never take, because the best place to …
Suicide Isn’t A Choice, It’s A Symptom
CW: This post will frankly and extensively discuss death by suicide and suicidal ideation. I want you to stop for a moment and think about the words you use to describe suicide. What do you say about someone who’s killed themselves? That, for a start. You say they committed suicide; …
Take Advice – But Only To A Point
There’s a lot of advice out there on the internet – for everything. Even in places that aren’t primarily designed to deal out advice. This blog, for example, is very often an advice blog, but that’s not its core functionality. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by advice, especially when it’s …
Trust
Sometimes I wonder how much of my anxiety comes from not being able to trust anyone or anything, because why restrict yourself to just being afraid that people will hurt you when you can also fear that things will break (just because it would be awful for them to). It’s …
You Have To Want To Fight Depression
What’s the worst thing you can say to someone with depression? There are plenty of variations of the same thing. That’s right, it’s: but why don’t you just get up and do something? Why don’t you just stop being sad? Well here is the thing that most people who haven’t …
On Studying Creative Writing at University
I want to let you in on a secret: I’ve been seriously thinking about going back to university. When I was a teenager, there was one thing I wanted more than anything, and that was to go to Cambridge. I don’t, of course, just mean the town – I mean …
Like the Tide
drag me out like the tide I know is coming for me in time you will return me to the sand and firm ground I know this now, after all the times we have danced these steps that mean more than I can yet realise because I cannot see the …