Gaming addiction is a major issue Warcraft and games like it can be addictive, addictive beyond the point of obsession and off into the scary realms and genuine risks of destroying your health, schooling, job, career, relationships, marriage…. I know how bad I am, but that’s me, I understand if it wasn’t this it would […]
Finding myself again
I’ve flagged this as medical rather than general mutterings but I’ll soon start work on my sites again so perhaps it will be in a ‘personal’ category. We’ll see. My wife and children think I’m having a mid-life crisis, my mum and aunty are just glad I don’t look like I’m at death’s door and […]
More positive affirmation notes from my past
These notes have been in a box for I don’t know how many years and are perhaps a measure of the person I was or maybe could have been, had I not lost my path and let life and depression wear me down. I am trying to fight back now, hence posts like this that […]
Shoot the damn dog – a memoir of depression
‘Shoot the damn dog : a memoir of depression‘ by Sally Brampton If you have long-term depression yourself, or know someone close suffering from it, this is recommended reading. There are many different types of depression and it can take people in different ways, but whatever form it takes you’ll recognise many of the torments […]
Forty nine this week and feeling it
End August 2011 : I am 49 this week, the years go fast! Still waiting to see the NHS psychologists but doing what I can to keep my moods in check and avoid the really dark lows. According to the last update I had I am third in the queue for screening – and it […]
Home : Updates for February to August 2011
Home : updates for February through August 2011 Has not been a good year so far. Spent most of it so far crippled with depression (even worse than usual) and then hospitalised for blood clots on my lungs (pulmonary embelism). On the plus side, albeit in a very unhealthy manner, I’ve lost 4 or 5 […]
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