One thing that really terrified me this year was just how bad the anxiety got before I was even aware that it was beyond the usual symptoms. I’ve identified two of the reasons: I was in crisis mode for a lot of that time, for reasons beyond my control. Now I’m actively removing myself from any […]
In 2010, I wrote a little post on my business blog about a concept called the flywheel. Below is an excerpt from that post: In online business, most people fantasise about The Tipping Point. It’s a concept made famous by Malcolm Gladwell in a book of the same name. It is that magic moment when […]
Last night, I was feeling pretty shit. It’s not uncommon for me to feel like crap, so I thought I’d just ride it out and wait for the meds to properly kick in. Then it hit me: the meds have kicked in. They’ve worked brilliantly. No more suicidal ideation. No having to spend a weekend […]
Yeah. So, I had all these plans to post things. Analysis, research, little observations. All of them could have been useful and made for a fascinating record. Alas, I seem to have either fallen into depression or ran out of energy. I’m going to write about things sequentially just so I have some kind of […]
I am OVER the transition to the new meds. I’ve been through it all before, I know it’s good in the long run blah blah blah. But man, it does a number on your body. It has been 3 days of being officially just on these meds. Yesterday and Monday were fine, just a little […]
Recently, Jennifer Harvey Sallin posted about the stages of adult giftedness discovery on the Intergifted Blog. I’ve been a (quiet) member of the Intergifted Facebook group for a while now and have enjoyed the discussions, but have felt my experiences were quite different to ones that others were going through. I knew it was due to […]
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I’m switching my medication
Wow. Intense day, at least emotionally. Today I went to the doctors to get the form for Centrelink. I know I’ve been a slackarse but I’ve just been feeling so shit. He was asking about medication and I mentioned that it felt like it had just stopped working. I hadn’t brought it up in the […]
This weekend I was on a research binge when I came across this comment on one of posts on Your Rainforest Mind. Once someone has an identity rooted in a disease or disorder, to recover means to lose their identity. If they spend 8 hours a day online with their fellow sufferers, then to recover […]
I was pretty stoked when introduced to Dabrowski’s Overexcitabilities. I had a framework for some of the sensory issues and overwhelm I’d been feeling. I bought and read Living With Intensity and quickly learned that a lot of Dabrowskis theories didn’t resonate with me. I still don’t believe in his theory of positive disintegration, although […]