Tag: Mental Health

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Notes on Stagnating

I have a prominent and sometimes disruptive aversion to stagnating. (‘Stagnant’ is just an awful word in a linguistic sense too but that’s a whole other post.) Becoming stagnant has always been a fear in the back of my mind. It comes from submitting to the idea that if you’re not moving forward, you’re moving […]

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Road-trips & Guilt-trips

I was up on the West Coast of Ireland for the week in a campervan with some friends. It was great craic and we saw parts of the country I would never have seen otherwise had we not been under an international travel ban. I spent the week away from the keyboard. I spent very […]

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Imposter

I was sat in a room last night with a group of friends from college. It’s been 4 years or so since we finished the undergrad. In most ways we’re all still very much the same as we were; giddy dopes who are fond of drinking cans (Except Dan lol). In another sense, we may […]

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Don’t Let Anger Consume You

It feels a little bit strange to broach any subject that isn’t related to the pandemic or BLM or riots or lockdown. The world seems to upside down. There’s chaos everywhere. More than anything though, there is an abundance of hatred, anger and judgement. Every time I log onto Twitter, I’m hit with a new […]

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You’re Allowed to Make Mistakes

Often enough these posts can seem like lectures, like I’m giving out about people and telling whoever is reading how to live. I know it can be taken in that way sometimes. I know it comes across like I think I know better, or even that I do better. But I don’t know better or […]

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Dealing With Daily Anxiety

I’ve talked a good bit on here about anxiety is the past; what it is and how to deal with it. Anxiety isn’t in itself a negative thing. It’s an evolutionary response that tells us what behaviours and thought patterns to avoid. You can benefit from the conclusions you may draw from anxiety. It’s a […]

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