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  • 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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    An Apologist’s Apology

    March 12, 2015
    Calm, Lake Ontario

    Freedom & Fear – two sides of the same coin

    August 30, 2013
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    Borderline Personality Disorder – getting a diagnosis

    December 13, 2012
  • Blog,  Mental Health

    How I managed to stop self-injuring and get on with my life

    March 1, 2012 /
    understanding self-harm

    An insightful and informative account of overcoming self-harm. The comments are also an invaluable source of information for anyone wishing to understand this widespread practice which affects people of all ages, men and women alike.

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    A Sunday stroll and a history lesson

    November 21, 2011
    Family on the deck

    Do you live to write or write to live?

    September 23, 2012

    A-Z of Canada: E is for Emerge

    June 17, 2013
  • Autobiographical Posts,  Blog,  Mental Health

    Desperation in the City of Dreaming Spires

    February 6, 2012 /

    Society has strict ideas about what is acceptable to talk about, and what isn't. When you chose to break this code of silence, you run the risk of being ridiculed, ostracised, even threatened. If your words make people uncomfortable, to protect themselves - they judge. Suddenly, you find yourself on the outside looking in. This is how the culture of shame keeps its victims mute. But secrets eat away at you. They weigh you down and, like a cancer, spread to other areas of your life, contaminating, changing, so that eventually, you become a different person. The only way out is to break your silence, before the silence breaks you.

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    April 30, 2013
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    November 19, 2012
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    Unexpected Love

    February 14, 2013

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    • Aspergers
    • Bipolar
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Top Posts & Pages

  • O Canada, O What do I do?
    O Canada, O What do I do?
  • Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
    Meeting the In-Laws - bridging the cultural divide
  • Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
    Nude yoga: Now available in Toronto
  • Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
    Bangles, Betrothal & ‘A Good Pakistani Girl’
  • Learning a language
    Learning a language
  • Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
    Marrying into a different culture – The clash of East and West
  • Childhood Is A Foreign Country
    Childhood Is A Foreign Country
  • Expats Are Born Not Made. Discuss
    Expats Are Born Not Made. Discuss

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