Apologies for not having written a blog recently, or regularly recently. Although I do try to keep things real, sometimes you just do not want to talk about, or write about the dark times. Everyone has them. The problem with social media is that we see the false positives everyone chooses to pump out. We then run the risk of assuming everyone else’s life is better than our own. trust me, it probably isn’t.
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The stress of it all – any ideas anyone?
My mind is a swirling confusion of thoughts at the moment, as I trudge through a tricky time on many many counts. My ASD is firing on all cylinders right now and my PTSD is doing overtime.
Continue reading “The stress of it all – any ideas anyone?”#275 Putting my mental health first: healing progress
In the 2 months or so since challenge wanaka I have put exercise on the back burner and decided to focus on my mental health instead. Here’s the progress I have made.
Continue reading “#275 Putting my mental health first: healing progress”The Narcissistic abuse cycle: understanding how you became the victim
Narcissistic abuse is a pattern of harmful behaviours used by one person to manipulate / exploit another. It usually consists of a four stage cycle: idealisation, devaluation, discard and hoover.
Continue reading “The Narcissistic abuse cycle: understanding how you became the victim”The real physical and psychological fallout of a medical misadventure
It’s not easy living with a disability that is as a result of someone’s fuck up. It’s not easy living with the knowledge that no one will ever be held accountable. And its very difficult indeed living in the knowledge that the organisation who’s responsibility ot is to make life better for you actually places very little value on the limb you lost or the trauma caused, either by the original fuck up, or their ongoing poor decision making.
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