I’ve decided today is the day I will return to blogging, you, dear reader, must be delighted. I know I am, I’ve just read my blog for the first time since my blogging hiatus began and by George it’s good! If you’re new to my blog I strongly suggest you go back and read all the old posts, they’re fab. Terrifyingly for me, reading some of them tonight was like reading them for the first time- but that’s mentalism for you.
As you can see I’ve moved from Blogger to WordPress- peer pressure is mainly to blame for this- all the cool kids are doing it. I do hope I’ll be forgiven for all the upcoming formatting errors whilst I suss things out. I will eventually get round to organising things properly but for now I’m concentrating on the basics.
Why did I stop blogging?
I have no idea, I haven’t been very well and although I’ve blogged during my “unwell” periods before, I just didn’t feel like it I suppose.
So what’s happened since my last post?
Loads and nothing all at the same time. I was going to do a potted history of the last 4 or 5 months but I can’t be bothered. I daresay anything I want or need you to know will come up in future posts.
Where am I now?
Hmmm. Difficult to say, possibly best to do a list of facts
- No longer on 14000 different medications- only on 1 after ditching the cocktail of mood-stabilisers and anti-psychotics in a drunken strop one evening in early January (another story for another time)
- No longer employed- fixed term contract ended in April (all offers seriously considered)
- Haven’t been back to the local acute psych ward since October 2010
- Got my driving license back
- Still mental but it’s a different kind of mental I think
- Still a parent
- Still political
And that’s about it. I’m delighted to be back and I’m really looking forward to blogging regularly again, I have loads to tell you about my exciting life as a career mentalist.
Look forward to read more about your dealings with mental illness! Welcome back
Thank you
Yay! Welcome back! See, I’m on my phone n can comment, can’t do that on Blogger.
Yay! Indeed and yes this looks much better on my phone than blogger did Xxx
Yay, so nice to hear from you, great to read xx
Thanks Toni, nice to see some old IV friends!
Good to see you back and blogging. I’ve been helped by your posts as a fellow mental health service user/client/patient (whatever will they call us next?)
Thank you, can I have an invite to your blog?
Inconveniences?!
Brilliant to have you back blogging again and hooray for wordpress.
Glad you got the licence back. Sorry to hear you are no longer employed. Hope though you can give yourself the time off to recover now. Glad you’ve not been back in the hospital and are on less meds, as long as they are helping more than the many meds!
Keep writing and welcome back xx
YAY!
Welcome back :0)
Sounds like things are (mostly) heading in the right direction, long may that continue!
*hugs*
Definitely delighted to see you’re back, and making progress. When you stopped blogging I wondered what had happened to you and hoped everything was OK.
Aboooot bleedin time :O)
Glad you are back
xxxx
Oh it’s good to know you’re back. Your blog is always interesting and ‘vital’, so carry on blogging and hang onto that rope (As Johnny Weissmuller advised aspirant Tarzans). Bee
Hi,
Thanks for linking to TT. I look forward to reading your blog! (and I’ve timed it well it seems..
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WG.x
welcome back Zoe, I still think you should write a book ;o)
Missed you – I dont “get” twitter…I get so lost lol
Yay, you’re back … I can’t believe that I’ve only just realised this, silly me. x
Good to see you back