Mental health from both sides
Bipolar disorder is a rather all or nothing term, which can, at times, be quite misleading. It implies that you are either delving the depths of misery or riding a wave of elation – or maybe entirely normal, if you take your treatment like a good patient. Except it quite frequently doesn’t work like that.…
So many moments make up a life. Some are forgotten almost instantly, some fade with time, and some are written hard on memory. Some of these are happy, some painful and humiliating. Do we really remember them, or do they curl into something else, worn by memory itself? Do we talk about them, look at…
I used to think that being present in any particular situation ensured accuracy. By this I mean accuracy of observation and also of recall; that standing witness to events was always reliable. As a child, I thought of the years as a climbing staircase, with different events, schools and holidays marking out the way. In…