Accepting Disability – A Work In Progress
I don’t need to take on the responsibility for changing other people’s misconceptions. Learning to be honest and authentic - standing in my own truth – is more important right now.
Hypomania: riding the bipolar high
These days when I relax in shavasana at the end of yoga the tears flowing into my ears are from an excess of joy not sorrow...
Blame It On The Bipolar
How much of my father’s behaviour was a result of his illness, and how much was his real personality?
Adult diagnosis – how does it help?
Getting my diagnosis was like being handed a key to my prison, not a life sentence.
The Question
My mother sat me down at the table, “I think you’re old enough now to understand... your father’s not well”
Point & Shoot: Creativity
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...
Where Have You Been?
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...
That Laugh
As I waited for the punchline that never came I was suddenly, brutally aware I was sitting next to a man I didn’t know...