After eight years of being on antidepressants, it is decidedly tricky business coming off them alone. I’m not quite collapsed in a heap on the floor, but feel that may be where I am headed unless I go to see a counsellor or psychologist soon. I do not think it is so much that I [...]

It has been a little while since I last posted, but I am now fully off antidepressants so I thought it apt to write about it. It has been about a fortnight since I took my last pill and I feel as if I am in the process of regaining part of myself or personality. [...]

Had a bizarre sort of waking/dreaming experience last night. I think I must have been sleeping for perhaps an hour or so and maybe my cats made some noise that triggered my half-waking, but I lay in bed, on my back hardly breathing as I heard the sound of many people outside my bedroom window [...]

As per my previous post, What if I Wasn’t Depressed?, I am now into my third week of cutting out the anti-depressants (Efexor XR). Whereas originally I was taking 5 x 75mg capsules, I am now down to three capsules per day and I am feeling positive about it. I have cried twice this morning [...]

I got a puppy in November – a pug cross shih tzu – and have been struggling to toilet train her and stop from biting/chewing everthing. I have felt a little out of my league as I have never really had a dog before, only cats.
The reason for this post is that I am a [...]

I am going to take myself off anti-depressants. Currently I am on a dose of Efexor XR, 375mg which is higher than the given therapeutic range, but less than I have been on in the past by 75mg. I have been taking this medication daily for approximately six years. So, I have taken one less [...]

It’s Christmas day and I am home alone. I’ve had a bit to smoke and I’m feeling rather flat.
I have just moved into my grandmother’s house (she is in a nursing home, no longer able to recognise family, remember things or look after herself). The house is huge, compared to anything I’ve lived in after [...]

Whilst ’schizophrenia’ and ‘bipolar’ are words that are relatively well-known to those with any clue about mental illness, however, the term ‘schizoaffective disorder‘ is not as well known. Increasingly, as I understand it, schizophrenia and bipolar disorders are being thought of as on a spectrum with different clusters of symptoms at various points across the [...]

The Life You Were Born to Live, by Dan Millman is a numerological book with a difference. The approach is somewhat similar to traditional numerology in that in order to obtain a life path number, one adds together the numbers in a birth date (eg. 5+2+1+9+7+4 = 2+8 = 1), however instead of simply [...]

I had been smoking again and pottering about the house when I thought to myself, “That’s right, I have to return that scanner to my friend”. A second later I heard my phone beep with an sms. It was my friend asking when I was going to return the scanner.
I can also remember a time [...]