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Going through the motions

I'm still full of lurgy. I've done Covid tests which have been negative but my cough and cold have been stubbornly lingering. It makes an...

It Follows

The stalking by my chronic fatigue has been quite relentless lately. It's probably been the most ruthless of all my symptoms these last...

Jaws

With a kind of inevitability, I am currently signed off work. It's been a bit of a badge of honour that it's been two years since I was...

Insomniac Activity

I've taken the day off work. Instead of being plagued by things that go bump in the night, I've been visited by a demon of another kind:...

Hold the door

I had a pretty epic wobble last weekend. I feel like it hit differently this time because it was public at an event I really wanted to be...

The Possession

I am very glad that it's the weekend, and even more so because it's a three day weekend. I'm going to talk about work in this blog post,...

Finding some colour

My last few posts have been concerned a lot about my latest rough patch and I've been a bit too much in my own head. I sometimes battle...

Visited by The Babadook

I might have been hasty in my last post about my mental resilience. I feel like I'm stuck in a paradox of being okay but not okay....

"It's not perfect...but it's mine."

One of the things I constantly seem to be at war with is - well - myself. I often struggle with getting a balance right and wobble...

Work absence and guilt gremlins

I hope everyone has been coping as well as they possibly can in the heat. For the most part, I coped pretty well. I am so grateful to...

Let's talk about stress, baby!

When I'm dealing with a particularly brutal flare-up, like now, it's difficult to maintain mental resilience which I talked about a...

Mental health merry-go-round

So, we've talked a bit about my conditions and their symptoms, but I wanted to do a separate post to talk about my mental health, the...

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