Tomorrow it’s my birthday. I’ll be 39. My, “I can’t believe I’m not 40″ year. Ageing has always been a funny thing for me – for the most part I’ve ignored it, and usually on any given year I’ve thought I was at least one to two years older than …
Something that became extremely apparent to me last year when I explored therapy was the sheer physicality of the process of self control. When I find myself sliding I need to do physical things to arrest it, including: Making sure I get out, if I’ve been inside too long; Doing …
It’s long been acknowledged that an unfortunate national trait in Australia is “tall poppy syndrome”; that’s where if someone becomes popular, or successful, it’s almost seen as a bad thing. This can lead to savage personal attacks on celebrities, politicians, etc., for no other real reason than “they’re more successful than …
“Understanding is a three-edged sword; there is your side, there is the other side, and then there is the truth.” Babylon 5. As the Robbie Williams song goes, lately I’ve been doing a lot of “thinking about thinking”. I’ve been involved recently on Facebook with a private support network of …
If I were to somehow travel back in time and were able to give my younger self some advice without causing a temporal paradox, I can honestly say that I’d give only one piece of advice: don’t change a thing. The above photo was taken when I was somewhere around …
In an article in the UK Telegraph, we’re told that Pope Ratzinger recently declared in an address that “saving” humanity from homosexuality and transexuality can be compared to saving the environment: In his address to the Curia, the Vatican’s central administration, the Pope himself described behaviour beyond traditional heterosexual relations …
Monsters John. Monsters from the Id. On Friday morning, after feeling a little anxiety rising, I found myself again sitting down to another 50 minute session with my psychologist. We started talking about language and the way I ‘see’ conversations when I’m post-analysing, as a result of use of the …
Yesterday morning I made my first visit to a psychologist. It was more of an introductory session – exploratory, if you will. The psychologist was probably as much as anything wanting to make sure that we could achieve results together, since everyone in mental health seems very clear that one …
The old idiom of “the journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step” doesn’t only just apply to physical journeys. Yesterday was quite a surreal birthday. The day started with a plethora of people posting happy birthday greetings on my Facebook wall (that continued right through until this …
Earlier in the week I blogged about going to an RU OK forum, leaving with much food for thought, and needing to do some processing. It’s funny how you can come up with all sorts of rationales and sophist responses as a shield against facing up to reality. When you’ve …
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