Tag «fear»

Reveal 03 – Panic

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 …

Snippet 02 – Spit it Out

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 …

Pure-O. Entry 01: The inner world of OCD

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 …