So, where to start? Do I just jump right in (or is that off?) the deep end or offer a few words of introduction?
How about we start with some facts:
- I’m a young, professional Australian female and just like the rest of the world, I have issues.
- I live with depression, like my Father, and his Father before him and his Father before him… you get the idea. Ain’t family just grand?
- I also live with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), and a Dissociative Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (DDNOS). Sometimes it’s nice not to fit into any of the boxes. I’m told that dissociation is a spectrum, and I’m somewhere just over the mid-way mark. I’m also told this is hardly unique.
- Note, I say I live with these diagnoses rather than suffer from them. Don’t get me wrong, they’re hardly pleasant but live with them I must and do since I’ve had the formal diagnoses for just over a decade and I’m only 25.
- I fiddle with words for a living so sometimes I need a place to just rant.
All this boils down to the fact that: I’m crazy but I have it under control, most of the time.
I’m hoping writing out my thoughts will knock some sense into the half-dormant organ located just North of my neck. In other words, the idea of this blog is to help me to keep things under control, or at least serve as a record of all triumphs, great and small, I make over the black dog and his ilk.
Unbelievable writing ability Catatonic Kid!
Hats Off!
It is such a great moment in time, when you are able to reach out and hold onto something tangible that relates directly to your own life, such as this blog.
I too blog to keep a journal, to express, to rant and to vent. I look back at some posts and am glad they are there to remind me where I have been and that in itself is a triumph!
All triumphs are yours to own no matter how big!
“All triumphs are yours to own no matter how big!” Amen to that one, Lady Penelope! =)
This is why I blog, to make some sense out of my world, to keep a record of progress, of set backs and lulls. Blogs are great record keeping. Sometimes I like the record and other times I resent it. Trust me, you’ll go through all the phases other bloggers go through but hopefully you’ll find the experience healing, just as many survivors have.
Blog on!
Austin of Sundrip
Thanks for the wisdom of experience, Austin – knock on wood it turns out that way.