Category Archives: Living With Depression

Blood may be thicker than water but you can still drown in it

I will not allow my son to have contact with people who have abused me, my family or my friends. My rule to anyone looking after my son — my father and grandmother are at the top of this list. … Continue reading

Posted in Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Depression, Granny, Health, Intervention, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health, Zombies | 15 Comments

The next few posts will require a password, this is where you get it

On Sunday (09/04/10) afternoon I will begin to publish a series of posts which will be password protected. It’s a very sensitive issue regarding recent developments in an ongoing dispute in my family. And it’s something I need feedback on. … Continue reading

Posted in Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Depression, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health | Tagged , | 35 Comments

Friday Conversations With My Psychiatrist | The all you can eat Rage buffet

During this appointment we mostly talked about my anger and rage issues, and how my responses to the things which encourage feelings of rage or anger in me are mostly impotent and misdirected. My response to being bullied in my … Continue reading

Posted in Appointment Day, Bipolar, Bipolar Disease, Bipolar Disorder, Clinical Depression, crazy people with no pants, Health, Living With Depression, Living With Manic Depression, Manic Depression, Mental Health | Tagged | 9 Comments

A couple of things about Me, NiN, Malware, WordPress and the letter i, plus a few songs

Earlier this week I was downloading a couple of Nine Inch Nails albums, and an album by Godhead when my computer pretty much stopped working. I’m blaming the Godhead because, other than a decent cover of “Eleanor Rigby”, it mostly … Continue reading

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Drinking water from a tin cup

I love drinking cold water from a tin cup. One afternoon, when I was ten or eleven, my grandfather took my brother and I on a walk into the thick forest down the slope away from the farm house. He … Continue reading

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Never Again

I knew this would happen. I fucking knew it. Months ago my grandmother sat me down and verbally attacked me, my newborn son and my girlfriend. I told my mother immediately afterwards that under no circumstances would my grandmother ever … Continue reading

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