Tag: mental health
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Saturday catch up (getting rid of my delusions)
Yes, yes, I know, I wrote a blog post yesterday. However. I thought ‘catch up’ is such a nice and innocent phrase. Do you know what is my most popular blog post so far? It’s this one: Is Boris Johnson autistic? How come? My blog is not about politics! As the title of this post suggests,…
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The beauty of an empty mind
I’m not sure how I’m going to keep the blog going, although does that really matter when no one really reads it. My mind is totally empty, I’m not sure if it’s olanzapine or the fact I’m now focused on my studies or a bit of both, but I don’t have any content in my…
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Freedom of speech
As I mentioned recently, my statistics are really poor lately, they are probably even worse than when I just started blogging but I still have some views on most of the days. As I was thinking about it I realised I am actually looking forward to that moment when I loose all my readers at…
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I had a uni related meltdown
It was only a mild meltdown, really, but I realised afterwards that I was being bitter on my blog so I deleted that post. I believe we all get bitter sometimes, autistic or not, but somehow non autistic people have it easier to realise that expressing those feelings openly doesn’t make them look good. Blogging…
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Effective altruism (in Swindon)
I’m not sure if I understand the concept correctly but it seems to be about praising people and organisations that do good. I normally complain here about various options of support that seem to be available in the UK, but when one reaches out, it turns out there’s nothing substantial there or even, possibly, the…
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Who called for that ambulance?
As you may know I got sectioned a few days ago, when I was in my own home, which is against the law in the UK. Unfortunately the same happened when I got sectioned the first time a few years back. I’m now recovering in Swindon hospital. Hospital staff was hinting me it was my…
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Gossip from psychiatric hospital
1. It does seem to me that some people imagine psychiatric hospitals as scary places where patients run around naked, hit their heads against walls and need constant restraining. I’ve been in three psychiatric hospitals as a patient, in two different countries, I also visited my dad in one and believe me, most of the…
Autistic and me 