“Sometimes on the journey to fulfilling a dream you get lost and find an even better one.” Unknown I don’t remember a time when I didn’t feel vulnerable to some degree. Whether it was real, imagined or something unquantifiable, a sense of worry and incompleteness hovered over me like smog. It refused to be moved. …
Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out. It will wear well and be remembered long after the prism of politeness and the complexion of courtesy have faded away.” Abraham Lincoln For much of your early life, if things go according to plan, your world expands. Family, …
The rate of change of momentum of a body over time is directly proportional to the force applied against it. Newton’s second law of motion (or thereabouts). I forgot just how much effort it took to get going in life when I was starting out. It takes a long time to build up life momentum, …
Know how to help The problem with a blog about mental health and depression is that often the only time you feel like writing is when you feel better. Then the natural tendency is to try to bring some good out of the terrible experience. Offer advice. Added to this, if you do happen to …
“Maybe ever’body in the whole Damn world is scared of each other.” From Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. “I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who triumphs over it.” Nelson Mandela Have you …
There are times in life when films, a song or artwork speaks directly to our soul. Sometimes it isn’t even a complete text. Sometimes it is only a quote or a line that illustrates an important life lesson and that lesson sticks with us. For various reasons, I have held onto a few lines from …
“Should we lose each other in the shadows of the evening trees, Ill wait for you and should I fall behind, wait for me” Bruce Springsteen. Sometimes I don’t even notice. I just wake up, shower and brew my coffee alone, feeling steady. Then someone else arises and speaks and suddenly I am irritated, short …
“But store up for yourselves treasures in Heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy and where thieves do not break in and steal.” Matt 6:20 Even as a child many of us implicitly defined success as having strength, power and influence. We seem to instinctively want others to be like us and to accept …
For someone who is isolating already by choice, Lockdown is not much trouble. It is basically ‘steady as she goes’. Similarly, if life has got you down and people grate on you like gravel, then being told to stay at home is almost a bonus. Lockdown however, is definitely an incredibly difficult time for many, …
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I’ll tell you what amuses me…the phrase lying dormant. To be honest, I don’t find the phraseamusing in all its guises, just the one where it is used to describe Depression or PTSD.It must be a phrase first used in that context by someone with little or no concept of mental illhealth. I’m sure they …
