Well, it’s now 20:30 on Friday 31st December 2021 and what a year it has been, both for myself and the world in general! Covid-19 is still causing havoc in the world – and scientific illiterates are still denying that it exists! I’ve lost several...
Photo by Hailey Kean on Unsplash Well, it is now 11 pm on Monday 5th April and it is 7 whole days (give or take a few minutes) since I last self-harmed by cutting myself. Yay for me! The last time I self-harmed I was actually a patient on a hospital ward following...
“Loneliness is a hot topic. There’s no questioning the significant negative social, health and economic hurt caused by ‘the loneliness epidemic,’ and many community leaders and third-sector organisations are calling for greater acknowledgement of this social...
I found these questions on Pinterest (the magical place — and frequently rabbit hole — where you can literally find anything). I want to write something more about me and you should do it too! Write your answers in the comment section below Q 1. Do you prefer writing...
I found these questions on Pinterest (the magical place — and frequently rabbit hole — where you can literally find anything). I want to write something more about me and you should do it too! Write your answers in the comment section below Q 1. Do you prefer writing...
Look out the window at the crowded streets belowSeems everybody has someplace to go.Look in the mirror with far away eyesCry in silence at a wasted life. Do you believe when I tell youThat lonely is the hardest.Do you believe when I tell youThat lonely is the hardest...
Your home is living space, not storage space. Francine Jay As someone whose OCD manifests as hoarding (as the few people I’ve ever let in my flat can testify), this article by Brad Stulberg for Outdoors magazine so resonates with me! “There’s growing...
A great article on grief. I wish this site had been up in 2008. No, time definitely isn’t a “great healer”! Last week was the 11th anniversary of my mother’s death and the pain is still as raw. I had the 11th anniversary of my mam’s death...
This is utterly groundbreaking. The Ella Roberta Family have won the right to another inquest into the death of their daughter Ella. The Attorney General said “I have concluded that there is new evidence which may alter the substantial truth of Ella’s...
I had planned on my first post of 2019 being a somewhat optimistic one — looking forward to what this new yeat will bring. However, when the time came I couldn’t face pretending to be cheery. So, I’ve spent the the first day of 2019 just as I spent the...
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