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YouTube Music Recap – September to November 2025, otherwise entitled “Remembering hospital and not wanting to live”.
I listen to a lot of music. It helps me process my emotions, recognise my emotional state in the moment and regulate my sensory system. This latter aspect was highlighted in the sensory profile that was created within my inpatient care plan; that I use music, in surprising ways, within the context of my sensory…
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Purposeful/less writing – or why this?
I started blogging in 2009 I think and continued on a different blog for another four years using a wordpress hosted platform. Back then, Facebook had only reached the masses for about eighteen months, maybe two years. Social media was a novelty, an unexploited paradise of consumption and audience participation that promised new and exciting…
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January 2026… a beginning and not sure where to start.
Being sectioned, again, was an experience I don’t really know how to talk about yet. I’ve had many inpatient admissions in the last six years and a reasonable number of section detentions. You think you know how they are going to go. Consider yourself an old hand. Then something appears unexpectedly, and sideswipes whatever stability…
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Current Mood: Shit, so I wrote a poem
** * * * * * * * * * * * The dreams of death and dying. The emptiness inside. This place in which I’m hiding, whilst life carries on outside. That love and life and meaning, with which I just can’t coincide. When all I have are these dreams of death and dying…
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The God of the Mountain
A short piece of writing that I completed for the Beyond the Spectrum Writing Group organised by Writing East Midlands: The stone is smooth and round and fits in the palm of your hand. Its surface is flecked with silver flashes that spark when the light hits them as the stone is turned. Tiny black…
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2021 – What a hell of a year…
It’s been a while since I posted here, not because of a lack of good intentions but simply because there was barely enough time to breathe last year, let alone find the time to update my website. I returned to work at the end of 2020 to begin a PhD at the University of Nottingham…