Two years on from my diagnosis and I am finally at peace with it. More than that … I am embracing it. The first year, after learning of my condition, was a year of denial; raging against being labelled and struggling with my anger around the various perceived causes of…

I have always been magnetically drawn to the villains in popular culture and literature. I don’t think that I am alone in this. As an adult I have come to understand the reasons why — tragic backstories, ingenuity, fierce determination. But, as a kid, it was simply a case of…

My blog posts thus far have been reasonably heavy going. On my part there has been some arduous yet rewarding plumbing of the depths and, for readers, some potentially confronting surprises. So today, possibly inspired by the beginning of Spring, I have decided to go with something much lighter and…

In a previous blog post I mentioned the fact that most of the topics I am discussing these days are a revelation to many of my friends and family. …

I dedicated my first blog post to one of the things that I missed most during pandemic lockdown this year — libraries. I talked about the role that libraries have played in my mental health journey and how they are a place of solace and sanctuary for me. In that…

Spoiler alert!! The following blog post contains details of the finale to Season 3 of Stranger Things … just in case you haven’t seen it yet! During the week I dropped in to my local comic book store on the way to work (#BackTheComeback). As usual I wanted to see…

It wasn’t my intention to have a theme running through my posts when I began my blog a month or so ago. An early trend seems to have organically developed, however, which I don’t think will be permanent (unless I branch out into multiple blogs). Hmmm. We shall see. The…

In my last blog post I spoke of the role that libraries have played in my mental health journey. I identified visiting my local library as one of the key aspects of my life that I was missing during the pandemic. I’m happy to say that the library has reopened…

One of the many, regular questions being bandied about at the moment, during the COVID-19 pandemic, is this: “what are you missing most during isolation?” When I start to compile a mental list I am conscious of the fact that all of the things I identify will return in time…