Archive for November, 2010

Mask off – Mask ON!

Hello everyone, and what a wonderful day it is today!! This whole “trying to be more open about what I’m going through” is a bit too scary for some people to deal with by the looks of things, so my natural instinct is to just pop that mask back on so they can live in relative safety again! And that’s
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What comes from a Freudian Slip

Well last week in counselling, I dropped a bit of a clanger and this week my counsellor wanted to know more! Somehow she managed to open the flood gates and wow….out poured SO much that I’d had trapped inside me. These were things that I’ve deliberately held onto but so wanted to express so it’s hardly surprising that given the
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Stripping Off That Mask

And I can’t tell you just how scared I am to do this! But you know what….it’s got to happen. I’m kicking myself, I’m one of those people who says in one breath “there’s still that stigma relating to depression etc and that needs to change”. Uh huh. So why is it that not too many people I know are
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What goes up must come down

I hate depression! I hate what my life is sometimes! I hate that there are so many unanswered questions. I hate that it’s the worst roller-coaster ride on the planet (for me at least). My therapy is going well, I see a counsellor at the Gold Coast Centre Against Sexual Violence. I’ve used the service before and it was just
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The Weirdos are Out and About

I recently posted in my other blog (the one that is about day to day life etc) about an experience I had last Thursday and even though a week has passed, it still leaves me feeling unsettled. I was unfortunate enough to encounter a “bus nutter”. The bus nutter is one of those people who looks slightly out of place
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