Day 3 – October 3 2018
Morning BP 112/82 – Shit, this place is giving me high blood pressure. I go to the community meeting this morning hoping for something but it just ends up being…
Day 2 – PM – October 2, 2018
I accidentally took Seroquel at 3pm today. Let me explain: I had Valium at, let’s say say 2pm. I then spend some time sobbing in public. I then spend more…
Day 2 – October 2, 2018
People who don’t know what bi-polar means, or even bi-polar 2, for that matter, and just think of it as anxiety or a bit of OCD or being “on the…
Day 1 – October 1, 2018
Blood Pressure 92/68 She takes my blood pressure four times. I don’t want to tell my nurse not to be to worried, that my blood pressure is always low, but…
30 September 2018 – The Day I Tell My Parents
Before intake Only parts of my mother’s house are still a shrine. Mostly I find little school photos, smaller than passport photos, tucked into the corners of photo frames around…
29 September 2018 – The day before
I’m at the nail place, the crappy one I swear I’ll never go to again but here I am. I tell her I don’t want any colour, that I’m going…
Should I post this on Facebook? (Spoiler alert, I did)
I want to post on Facebook: Hey who wants to go out tonight? One last drink? Maybe 3 or 5? For old time’s sake. We’ll talk shit. I promise not…
I don’t know what this one’s about so stop asking
I lie in bed and work. I work harder alone. I can focus. Sometimes there are no other thoughts when I focus. Then you come home – for lunch, for…
There was this time. Not now, naturally.
I wore my dad’s wedding suit, all lovingly hand-stitched, on two major occasions: The first time was when i was 16, a school dressup, I went as a member of…
On Addiction
I originally wrote this in April 2015. I’ve revised it in light of Chris Cornell’s suicide. Vale. ACT 1: When I was 17, I got drunk for the first time…