Last week was a good one. Busy not least with work (where despite being part-time I worked everyday in some form including the weekends) but also lots of other decent things happened. Thankful that the tube strike didn’t happen though pissed off that QPR lost 2-1 at home to lowly Carlisle. When I started to Read More…
Month: August 2015
16 reasons why the last 48 hours have been good
During a period of depression in the past (phases of this have come and gone constantly) I was challenged by a clinician when I had been most happiest in my life? Probably a pretty obvious question but it was the first time I had ever been asked it and I couldn’t think of when it Read More…
Devastating news but the world just carries on as normal (BDblog: Sun 16 – Sat 22 Aug 2015)
So really shit news last week that one of my oldest and best friends is dying. Don’t know how long he’s got but we are talking months. I went through my teens and twenties with people dying of AIDS but then meds meant that stopped. But now I start to learn about more people I Read More…
Trying to look at things in a new way (BDblog: Sun 9 – Sat 15 Aug 2015)
Last week I had a good session with my life coach Kerr who I have been seeing every few months for several years now. This has given me good long-term overview on my personal development and the session on Friday made me think more about the things that are important in my life. So a Read More…
Overworking, tube strikes, and old friends (BDblog: Sun 2 – Sat 8 Aug 2015)
Down to earth after whizzy week previously though disconcerting impact of another bloody tube strike mid-week. Thing is, as with all minor conflicts, there is inevitably going to be a solution so in that case get on and get to the solution bit without bothering with the conflict part which is pissing us all off! Read More…
William Styron ‘Darkness Visible. A Memoir of Madness’ – my reflections on this book and my own depression
Another 50p charity shop book which attracted me because it was about depression and quite slim so an easy read (not least compared to other volumes on the subject). Tis short and written in 1990 so things have progressed since then (like the author having no appreciation of the value of physical exercise) but it Read More…
BE A SLOB! BElfAst, Sheffield, LOndon, Birmingham (BDblog Sun 26 July – Sat 1 Aug 2015)
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates An intense week primarily because of being away from home particularly attending a very useful but thorough Tech for Good boot-camp in Sheffield. Though before that I was in a very wet Belfast. Read More…