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Another Time at Camden Lock

It’s a strange feeling, this, to be left alone in the middle of a crowd, to be abandoned by people … More

Camden Town, depression, drunk, lies, London, love, poem, poetry, relationships, suicidal, writer, writing

Diary: February

CONTENT WARNING: MENTAL ILLNESS, SELF-HARM, SUICIDE, SUICIDAL IDEATION, DRUGS/ALCOHOL, DISORDERED THINKING I have decided to publish brief excerpts of the … More

addiction, awareness, death, diary, illness, journal, mental health, mental illness, notebook, suicide, truth, writer, writing

Unhealthy Haiku

Pringles for breakfast, liquid lunch, drugs for dinner: feel ill, wonder why.

alcohol, breakfast, diet, dinner, drugs, food, fuckup, haiku, lunch, mess, poem, poetry, unhealthy, writer, writers life, writing

Diary: January

My goal for 2020 is to be brave. It doesn’t get much braver than sharing your personal journal with strangers … More

diary, journal, life, mental illness, notebook, writer, writing

The View From The Smoking Room

I can see through windows once obscured by the lime tree that now stands smaller, nude and the skeleton of … More

gardens, home, houses, imagery, life, London, nature, night, observation, poem, poetry, smoking, winter, writer, writing

Finding It

Girl is finding it hard to write. Miserable, broken, easier to just fall. To write honest work the stuff that … More

art, depression, erasure, experience, girl, Hijacked Amygdala, life, love, media, newspapers, poem, poetry, words, writer, writing

The Realest

Here it is: the realest thing I’ve ever written:

art, bipolar, borderline, BPD, collage, creative, depression, diary, eupd, honesty, journal, life, notebook, personality disorder, suicide, truth, writer, writing

Feliz aniversário C.L ♡

Clarice Lispector would have celebrated her 95th birthday today. In honour of this glorious lady, I have spent the day indulging … More

authors, birthday, books, glamour, inspiration, inspirational, life, literature, love, PRH, prose, publishing, quotes, reading, short story, writer, writing

The Bravest

Anyone can save someone else if they want to if they have reason to. But only the bravest people can … More

creative writing, forgiveness, friendship, help, inspiration, love, poem, poetry, recovery, strength, thinking, thoughts, writer, writing

C O L O U R

Days sober: 23 This morning’s appointment with my GP was uneventful. MRI scan was normal, bloods were normal, lithium level was 0.6. … More

addiction, art, beauty, bipolar, blahhh, blogging, blogs, borderline, BPD, colour, creativity, depression, emotions, lit mag, miss you, mood, NHS, poetry, productivity, work, writer, writing
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