Not my real name of course! I am new to blogging and wondering how much I'll get done if on tablets that give me something called 'somnolence' - a side-effect that is the opposite of insomnia so I feel like snoozing a lot even during the day. Carmen and I are both mental health 'insiders'. That means we have bona fide mad certification!
One of our objectives is to try and combat the stigma associated with mental ill health, in my case paranoid schizophrenia, by talking about our experiences. I have been sectioned for instance, and it's not as bad as it sounds - people must think you're a danger to the public if you're on a section, but mostly it's to stop you being a danger to yourself, or in my case a danger to my poetry. (I recently destroyed over 200 poems I had written because I thought it was more likely that I would be hospitalised if I didn't).
Am reaching for the matchsticks just now, so will sign off; will write soon.
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