I had a 45 minute telephone assessment last Monday. I had referred myself to the local Wellbeing service to ask for help managing my drinking, and Monday was my initial consultation. Whenever you access a mental health service in the UK, you are asked to complete a questionnaire before your first appointment. This is toContinue reading “Respawn: round fucking-whatever”
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Art as therapy
I’m not a creative person. I’d like to be, but I don’t seem to have it in me. I’m just not talented like that. I can’t draw, or paint, or dance. I like words, but I’m a long way from writing a novel. I write poetry, but it’s nothing special and nothing I’d want otherContinue reading “Art as therapy”
Sobriety is harder in the dark
The clocks went back last week. On the 25th October, to be precise. So now it’s dark by 5pm, although it isn’t dark in the morning yet. But we’ve had almost four solid weeks of relentless rain, so it hardly gets light during the day at the moment. If I thought sobriety was hard overContinue reading “Sobriety is harder in the dark”
