A strategy to cope with suicidal ideation
This post started life as a Facebook status, Wednesday 12 October 2016. ----------- An update. Feeling the pain is sometimes easier, way easier, than all the things you do -…
This post started life as a Facebook status, Wednesday 12 October 2016. ----------- An update. Feeling the pain is sometimes easier, way easier, than all the things you do -…
The last of the five-part series: glad, mad, sad, bad, flat. First there were glad, mad, and sad. (Geek happy, geek rage, geek sad) Then bad entered the mix. (Geek…
Sometimes, we feel bad. Scared, guilty, worried, anxious... All the feels in the general category of 'bad.' When you combine feeling bad with geekly propensities towards intensity, feeling-in-detail, and overactive…
Sadness isn't something that comes naturally for me. It's something I've had to learn how to feel, recognise, and experience. This article is very much about my own experience of…
If you know me, it'll be no surprise to you that I get cross about things. Ranty, on occasion. Downright furious, too. Being angry is, in essence, "I don't want"…
Em sat at her desk, eyes shining, barely suppressing the bubbling joy inside. Then the guilty and alarmed look in her eyes: "Can I really be this happy about a…
Being ungrounded happens a lot. You feel a bit off. Not quite there. Or completely over-excited. You've lost touch with yourself physically. Lost touch with the earth. Lost touch with…
You've noticed that you have a problem. Mental health, emotional health. Or you've reached out for support through a difficult time. First of all: well done! It takes a huge…
Are you wondering how and why intelligence and sensitivity fit together? Imagine a computer with thousands, nay, millions of input channels. It needs a pretty big processor to handle…
Stupid is a stupid word. If you don't know something, you don't know it. You're not stupid because you don't know it. You can learn it. If you can't…