I have recently been experiencing an ongoing depressive episode. It has been challenging in many ways. For me, this time, depression manifested as a bombardment of relentless negative thoughts, rolling through my mind from constant self degradation to fear and anxiety about a terminal cancer diagnosis from every ache and pain I was experiencing in […]

It was a normal Wednesday morning. I had a huge pile of washing to get through. The previous few days had been raining nonstop, but that day was bright and cold. I’d put on a load of washing but the machine stopped with an error message about halfway through. “For Fuck’s Sake!!” I thought, “I […]