Living with the pain of depression
The Inside
The Power of Power
My favourite comic when I was younger (ahem, a couple of years ago... Ed) was Spider-Man. I was, and still am, a big fan of his. The reason I liked him so much was he reminded me a lot of myself. I was a cocky little bastard growing up and often bit off more than … Continue reading The Power of Power
Labels
I was born disabled. I was autistic until I learned how to smile. I was a bipolar sociopath until I developed ADHD. Then I turned 5. I was bombarded with so much 'normal' that it eventually drove me crazy. Labels. We catalogue our lives with them. We judge, simply to index our experiences. I sometimes … Continue reading Labels
Real Men
"The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection" Thomas Paine
The Fuck It Principle (FIP)
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." Reinhold Niebuhr Firstly, I liked to apologise for the profanity. It is not my usual mode of writing, but this is a principle I have invested a lot … Continue reading The Fuck It Principle (FIP)
About Passion
'I wanna get high, so high' Cypress Hill Passion, real passion and not what employers and charities are looking for, is a black rubber blanket wrapped around the logic centres of your brain. It's blindness, where the only light is the object of your passion. True passion is the unwillingness to consider the possibility of … Continue reading About Passion
Take Love with You
I hate it when people tell me to calm down. I hate it when people tell me to relax. I hate it when people tell me to slow down. I hate it when people tell me to chill. I hate it when people ask me if I'm stressed. I hate that people think they know … Continue reading Take Love with You
Being Normal
"I sometimes feel broken, as if someone dropped me and then trampled on the pieces." We live in absolutes and abstracts. If I said the word 'chair', we are almost guaranteed to share the same mental image. But if I said a 'beautiful chair' there is a great possibility that we have different mental images … Continue reading Being Normal
Passed Lives
I was inspired by a wonderfully written post about not allowing the past to impact on the present (Shout out to @theseeds4life. Ed). It got me thinking about my clients and how profound an impact their past has had on who they are. When we see the past in the rear view mirror we can do … Continue reading Passed Lives
Small Steps to being a Giant
Small means insignificant, mediocre, unnoticed, inadequate, inconsequential, inconsiderable, insufficient, limited, little, meager, minuscule, minute, modest, narrow, paltry, petite, petty, pitiful, poor, puny, short, runt, stunted, toy, trifling, trivial, unpretentious, wee, young. You may identify with some of these words, or even all of them, but it's not as unnatural as you think to feel this … Continue reading Small Steps to being a Giant
The Inside Me 