“I am not scared of bad people, of wicked evildoers, of monsters and creatures of the night. The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness. The ones who know how to behave, and what their neighbors need to do to be on the side of the good.” ~ Neil… Continue reading You Know They’ve Been Putting ‘Trigger Warnings’ On DVD Cases For Years, Right?
(Image source: Getty Images) “I thought the doctor's diagnosis was the first step to mending her. I know now that a diagnosis is taken in like an orphaned dog. We brought it home, unsure how to care for it, to live with it. It raised its hackles, snarled, hid in the farthest corner of the… Continue reading My Advice To The Newly Diagnosed
“The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche So, I've noticed that a few people have arrived here over the last few weeks via Google searches relating to thoughts of suicide. I always feel a bit weird when these things show up in… Continue reading Reasons To Keep Going
“Only the dead have seen the end of war.” ~ Plato When I was first sent a link to this infographic and asked if I would consider sharing it on my blog I wasn't sure what I might have to say about it. While it's about PTSD and I have PTSD the subject matter felt alien… Continue reading An Epidemic of PTSD
(Getty Images) “A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.” ~ Elbert Hubbard So the other day I talked about some of the things that are unhelpful to say to someone with post traumatic stress disorder. Since I put that post up a few people have asked me what would be… Continue reading 5 Things You Can Say To Someone With PTSD
(Image Credit) “You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.” ~ Michael Connelly So, actually quite some time ago now I wrote about things that I'd found it unhelpful of people to say about my PTSD. That post has been far and away the most viewed thing I've ever written and so I've decided to… Continue reading 5 More Things You Probably Shouldn’t Say to Someone With PTSD
(Image Credit) "Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium." ~ Cyril Connolly I have post traumatic stress disorder, as you probably know already. You probably also know that the side effects of post traumatic stress disorder include nightmares, flashbacks, and generalised anxiety. You may… Continue reading Kitty Genovese Would Have Faired No Better In Suburban England
(Warning: this post contains detailed discussion of self-harm.) "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." ~ William Shakespeare I decided to write this because almost everything that I've seen about self harm in the media and online discusses it as being almost exclusively an issue for young people, primarily teenagers.… Continue reading I Cut Myself To Feel Better
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." ~ Salvador Dali One day; a year ago this week, I decided it would be a simply fantastic idea to take a lethal… Continue reading Over My Shoulder
(Image Credit) “Time doesn't. All that Time does is make it more distant, put more space between you and what happened. It doesn't heal anything. I don't know how or what does the healing, but it isn't Time.” ~ Mercedes Lackey Many people say that time is a great healer, but I've learned the hard… Continue reading Time Heals Nothing
Make-Up & Mirtazapine 