Monthly Archives: April 2012

Apr 30 2012

The Many Faces of Me

Sometimes, images capture words better than words capture ideas. I threw this together this afternoon, and thought it grasped some of my many facets pretty well. And yes, by the way, it is me in the pictures. This is only a semi-anonymous blog, after all! I’ve put the images in the ascending order from least to most important. So yeah, I’m someone with a mental illness, but more importantly, I have many interests; more importantly again, I’m characterised by many things; and most importantly, I am many things.

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Apr 17 2012

Prophecy

My first (and last) post ended up being rather prophetic, for reasons I don’t feel would be appropriate to discuss. I have more integrity than to voice any criticism or judgement of others on a public forum.

Instead, I wanted to think a little about what I want from this blog. My last one was almost exclusively about mental health issues, and I expect that that will be the primary focus of this – but I don’t want it to be the only one. I have a range of physical health issues that I haven’t had anywhere to complain about yet (or, at least, nowhere that has survived), so I would expect some occasional discussion of those. However, I think it’s also important that I write not just about health concerns in their myriad guises. When I feel like it, I’d like to be able to discuss politics, telly, books, blah blah.

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