November 2011
10 posts
Plan
I want to write about my recent experiences to convey, as I stated, “how a world can fall apart”. I will try to build up a full picture in pieces to capture the how this really feels.
I will intersperse this with my daily experiences now because I think comparing the distorted world of mental illness to a more normal world might be helpful.
I also want to write pieces about the...
A bit about OCD
I really don’t like the idea of OCD! It seems like such an unromantic illness. It comes across as something that is a feature of personality rather than illness and it looks like weakness. I understand anyone who sees me behave as I do and concludes that I need to “pull myself together”. I tell myself that too.
I have had it since I was about six years old. I don’t...
I hope I don't regret making myself identifiable...
I deleted almost all my social networking profiles, including innocuous ones like LinkedIn. This was mostly to do with clearing clutter and jumping off a certain bandwagon. I don’t mind having information about myself available to whomever, not that I expect anyone to be interested. Still I know it could be a terrible idea from the point of view of, say, future employment prospects to reveal...
This is about...
…my experience of mental illness.
In an attempt to understand more about what has happened to me and to learn to cope with it, I have read many many books and websites. I have found that the most helpful ones are the first person accounts. They may not be by someone who is suffering the same profile of diagnoses as me; there is often a good deal of similarity in the issues people face...
