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Posts tagged 'anxiety'

In Good Company

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

One of my closest friends has recently launched a website called In Good Company. The idea behind it is simple; many people suffer from anxiety and depression, few people talk about it. If more people share their experiences, the hope is that we’ll all feel less alone. I couldn’t agree more. I wrote a post [...]

A dialogue with a demon

Monday, November 14th, 2011

I had a bit of a wobble last week. By wobble I mean a visit from my old friend the anxiety demon. He brought some friends and they had a loud party in my head. It was most unpleasant. Unsurprising though. Whilst I was launching the Split Worlds project I was also writing the first [...]

And then the sun came out

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011

I’ve just had one of those ‘sunlight through clouds’ moments. This morning I had to devote several hours to client work, then moved onto my own stuff, only to find that the provisional date for my first real world book launch may need to be delayed. As a control freak, being on the brink of [...]

A confession

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

I have a confession to make. I’m struggling. Last Thursday a tsunami of anxiety hit me and I haven’t found my feet since. I recorded an audioboo at the time, in the hope that talking would help, as I was by myself in the house. Then I worried about whether I should have put it [...]

Allow me to introduce you…

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

I don’t quite know how this happened but Thursday evening has arrived and I haven’t had time to write a blog post. All of my ideas have been shut up in an airless waiting room, and now I’m finally sitting down to write, they’re all trying to rush out of the door at once, shoving [...]