Category Archives: Mental health

On mental exhaustion

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Summary Some thoughts on my recovery, and what next for the future. No recovery is pain free. As Mind point out in How to rebuild your life after breakdown, some of my relationships with people have come under strain. A … Continue reading →

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The Thoughts

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

Summary I wrote down all of the thoughts going through my head between 7:30 and 8:00 am on the morning of 22 April 2012. This I hope gives you an idea of what my mind has to deal with in … Continue reading →

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Quacks – and I’m not talking about ducks

Posted on April 18, 2012 by

Summary Search for a cure One of the things that is a cause for angst for me is having gone in the opposite direction mental health-wise despite doing what felt like so many of the textbook things to improve my … Continue reading →

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This is going to take some time…

Posted on April 17, 2012 by

Summary Recovering from a crisis If you’ve not read it, this booklet from Mind is worth reading – How to rebuild your life after breakdown. Anyone who has spent time with me recently will tell you that my confidence is … Continue reading →

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On music – a personal journey

Posted on April 15, 2012 by

Summary My fraught relationship with (classical) music I can’t remember the precise point at which I started learning a musical instrument. I must have been about six. During the mid-1980s I remember many teachers in my neighbourhood being unmarried and … Continue reading →

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Brothers in arms – Update 2

Posted on April 6, 2012 by

Summary Being looked after by the brother I seldom got on with as a child It’ll probably go down as one of those moments in life that will transform my relationship not just with my older brother but with the … Continue reading →

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Acute Mental Crisis – Update 1

Posted on April 4, 2012 by

Summary What the doctor said On a top level as I tweeted through Puffles last night, I’m back up to my ‘civil service’ levels of anti-anxiety medication along with a short term course of additional medication. This is combined with … Continue reading →

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Acute mental health crisis – and the kindness of family, friends and strangers

Posted on April 3, 2012 by

Summary Taking time out to recover If there was a blogpost I really did not want to write, it is this one. I’ve been going through what feels like an acute mental health crisis over the past couple of weeks. … Continue reading →

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Mind Tech unConference – 30 March 2012

Posted on March 30, 2012 by

Summary Some thoughts from today’s gathering It was quite timely on a personal level to have found out about this gathering via Beatrice Bray’s comment in response to On anxiety overload. Over the past week or so I took a … Continue reading →

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On anxiety overload

Posted on March 18, 2012 by

Summary Me vs anxiety overload, with some thoughts at the end on wider public health delivery considerations for treating mental health. It’s been about a week since I last took my last dose of medication for this cursed anxiety disorder, … Continue reading →

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