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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....

The Haunting

I've been in flare-up territory for a while. I've been hit with painsomnia which has given me a buzzy headache/tinnitus. It does feel...

Sleepy Hollow

Tonight, I watched Sleepy Hollow with my husband. We were talking about it the other day and as I hadn't seen it in years, and we had...

Immobilised by Miss Havisham

The thing with my chronic pain conditions is that often, it isn't the pain that immobilises me. I can cry, I can grump, I can work...

It's MY head!

It's been a rough old week. I have come very close to crying off sick from work virtually every day this week but always ended up closing...

Bad Barty Crouch

Your TMI warning is now! One of my oft-complained about aspects of my litany of conditions is that when researching about them, I'll...

The Pennywise Hibernation

Today was my first day back at work after 19 days of annual leave. Remember when you were at school and there were certain things that...

The Rebellion

Since we had our party, I have been feeling a bit fluey. A couple of days ago I took a Covid test, just in case, and I was clear. One of...

Body reading and mind building

If you think that sounds like I've got it arseways, then you would be wrong. It makes perfect sense. Let me explain. My body requires a...

It's just a phase...

I completed my first week back at work on a phased return. It was nerve-wracking and I had the Sunday night doomies for the first time in...

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...

Painsomnia at the disco!

As a rule, I don't have a problem sleeping. In the before times I could get to sleep within minutes. Sleep was my friend. Then...

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