anxiety

Tips from the Isolation Tank

It’s hard to know why, but some days, despite having a glorious toddler who is great company, a loving husband and a great family, I feel alone, isolated and sad. Perhaps it’s a shade of depression, and if that’s all I’m left with, that’s pretty damn good. On those days, I miss my mum (Hi [...]

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Driving Test Jitters

After 11 months and 121 hours of lessons I will be taking my driving test tomorrow, again. The first time I took it was just over 2 years ago and after 50 hours of lessons. I am not a natural driver. And jitters is far too mild a word. I’ve turned off my mobile phone [...]

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Depression is an Old Friend

That’s how I choose to think about it. An old friend. Not because I particularly like its company, but because I would struggle to know who I was without it. You don’t get over it so much as manage it. Managing it is probably not an accurate term. It makes it sound like you are [...]

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Sometimes I feel like I am in High School . . .

It’s true. I will be sitting at dinner with a group of people and not just feel like an outsider, but the only outsider. I constantly feel like I’m talking too much or not enough. It is so completely PATHETIC – and not in the good old fashioned pathos way, in the uber modern disconnected [...]

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