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That you’d have to go out of your way to avoid media coverage of mental health topics – Waterford Whispers News anticipated responses like mine the other day! – is a testament to the hard work of the countless advocates and experts by experience who have braved the potentially inhospitable climate that is the public …
Panic came a-knocking recently, and it extracted the last of the seven shades of shit from my what at times appears to be a kittenesque psyche. Or perhaps the better analogy would be a mouse, but there’s something, some intangibly feline quality, to my mortal vessel that just seems to better capture the fragility of …
It’s nearly seven years since I attempted to wrestle back control of my life from the entirely unfavourable patterns I had settled into. Excessive indulgence; the blurring of weekends into weekdays; laziness in the extreme; total lack of ambition. I’d carried on in this way for quite some time, despite it being deeply unfulfilling, and …
For a so-called social animal, the games we play with one another and lengths we’ll go to in order to blend in or at least avoid causing a ruckus, seem to be a lot like hard work, begging the question of just how easy being sociable is. Necessary, yes. Conducive to well-being, almost certainly, especially …
With the pleasantries out of the way and the thorny issue of my name well and truly covered – I hope! – in Reveal 01 – Propernounaphobia, I’ll turn my attention to information of a more general nature. Something more loosely autobiographical, possibly, but I feel like a bit of an egomaniac even using the …
Call me Dave Cal. Christened David and addressed so by parents and a few others, but Dave or Dave Cal will do just fine. Anyway, I’ve perpetuated this little naming anomaly myself. The dee sound is one of those ones that doesn’t always escape my lips with the greatest of ease. One of my earliest …
It sits on your skull, shuffling and wriggling its hind quarters until safely nestled on the most sensitive places imaginable in and around the cranium’s pressure points. Burrowing deeply, its safety clamps strategically latch onto key locations surrounding the brain’s activity hub. The filter, the barrier, between inner awareness and outer experience, is infiltrated, tampering …
The heart-breaking, unneccessary deaths of Ciara Pugsley and Erin Gallagher shocked the nation recently, tugging at the heartstrings of parents and non-parents alike. A person taking their own life is about as disturbing as it gets, and the only way it can be even more upsetting is when it concerns a minor. In their early …