Mental Health
Why Suicidal People Should Ask For Help
I’ve seen a number of comments on social media lately, some of them directly related to me, criticising – or at …
Year: 2020
Recovery
The Truth And What Happens To It
Given recent events, I’ve been ruminating (never ruminate, by the way) on the nature of truth, lies, honesty and so on. …
Recovery
The God Pill
One morning a couple of years back, when things weren’t looking so good in terms of making it through alive to …
Memory
The Lost Decade
‘You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that …
Memory
Kings of the Road
Sir John Falstaff: ‘We have heard the chimes at midnight Master Shallow.’ Shallow: That we have, that we have, that we …
Recovery
The Invincible Summer
‘In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer’. Albert Camus. Around about this time last …
Recovery
Recovery Is Not Linear
Some men see things as they are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were, and ask why not? …
Recovery
Second Man
Watching the entertaining and profoundly moving film First Man, which documents the career of Neil Armstrong, complete with a certain lunar …
Recovery
Recovery
The Power of No
As part of my prescribed medicine regime, twice daily I take a quarter tablet of a drug called Metoprolol. Part of …