When you have depression, nothing makes sense anymore. You logically know there are things that are helpful behaviours, but you don’t do them. Why? Because when you do, you feel no pleasure or motivation. An empty void. Human’s aren’t very good at knowing what they’ve got until it’s gone. People don’t realise that simple tasks […]

It has been a couple of months since I have seen him. Our appointments have become less regular and I now have these weird feelings, feelings of happiness and balance. I am going through life how others do, with some ease. I am sitting in his new clinic, in the waiting room. It’s my first […]

I walk into the waiting area of my psychologists clinic and see the familiar faces of the reception ladies. They are always so gentle and I am forever grateful for that. It’s been two years since I started seeing him and he has moved offices a few times. This one is by far my favourite. […]

I am in my kitchen cooking sausages and potato mash. My son is watching football (soccer in Australia) on the TV and letting me know the play by play. I can hear my partner and daughter in the next room finishing off my daughter’s homework, which she luckily doesn’t mind doing as she’s just turned […]