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    Holding On – thoughts on suicide

    August 14, 2014 /
    A climber helping a companion over the lip of a rockface.

    I heard the news of Robin Williams’ death late on Monday and felt the familiar, hypocritical shock when I learned it was suicide...

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    Mindfulness in Depression Relapse Prevention – Facing Difficulties

    August 22, 2012
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    How People With Autism Fake It

    September 30, 2015
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    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 2)

    March 6, 2012
  • Bipolar,  Mental Health

    Adult diagnosis – how does it help?

    July 24, 2014 /
    Dictionary definition of 'Diagnosis'

    Getting my diagnosis was like being handed a key to my prison, not a life sentence.

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    Hypomania: riding the bipolar high

    December 8, 2014
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    That Laugh

    June 19, 2013
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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Bipolar,  Mental Health

    The Question

    July 16, 2014 /
    Children with raised hands in a classroom

    My mother sat me down at the table, “I think you’re old enough now to understand... your father’s not well”

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    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 3)

    April 9, 2012
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    Borderline Personality Disorder – getting a diagnosis

    December 13, 2012
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    My Mother Was A Nun

    March 7, 2013
  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014 /

    We had the luxury of a three-day weekend thanks to last Friday's PA day, and right from the start it was an outpouring of creative energy...

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    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015
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    Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

    November 6, 2015

    Autism and Friendship – Flying Into The Windowpane

    October 24, 2017
  • Aspergers,  Bipolar,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014 /
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    I’ve mentally written and re-written the start of this post a thousand times over but when it came to putting it on the page I always lost my nerve. It never sounded right...

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    Why An Autism Diagnosis Is Like Finding Out You’re Adopted

    November 6, 2015

    Doing Autism Differently

    April 2, 2015

    Point & Shoot: Creativity

    June 9, 2014
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Mental Health

    “D’ya like dags?”

    May 9, 2014 /
    Children and dogs

    The dogs in my past are bound forever to the struggles or deceptions I faced at the time...

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    Versatile? Me?

    October 17, 2011
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    Who would be a woman?

    November 21, 2012
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    Ungrateful Bitch (Part 1)

    February 27, 2012
  • Aspergers,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014 /
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    We go months in our family without seeing a doctor, then suddenly here we are, test-driving not one but two distinct areas of the Canadian healthcare system...

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    Where Have You Been?

    May 29, 2014
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    Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress

    January 28, 2015
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    Adult Autism: Is That A Thing?

    October 28, 2015
  • Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health

    BPD: Suspended Animation

    March 4, 2014 /
    Broken Down Car

    To understand the world at all sometimes I have to just focus on a tiny bit of it – look very hard at what’s close to hand and make it stand in for the whole...

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    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013
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    When Aspergers Is Good News

    March 13, 2014
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    Borderline Personality Disorder – getting a diagnosis

    December 13, 2012
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Shoot & Quote: Intangible Water

    November 20, 2013 /
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    I've spent a long time looking for answers and it seems all I needed to know was there in the intangible element I'm naturally drawn to...

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    Ever been to a rib-eating contest?

    July 17, 2013
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    AND THE WINNER IS…

    April 16, 2012

    Paris – The Friendliest Place On Earth

    December 4, 2013
  • Blog,  Borderline Personality Disorder,  Mental Health,  Photography

    Black Flowers Blossom – Surfing the BPD breakers

    November 18, 2013 /

    Sunday was a bad day. Black flowers blossomed in the hothouse of my mind, staining my brain with their blooms like cryptic Rorschach blots. Hello BPD my old friend...

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    April 11, 2012
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    The most precious things

    January 25, 2012

    Trickle Treat!

    November 1, 2011
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