Square Peggy

Today is a wading-through-metaphorical-treacle day. A zero executive function day. A day where I keep finding myself motionless, staring at ...

When I'm driving along or walking and autumn washes over me, I feel all scrunchy, and not in a good way. When I first came out of hospit...

Writing my post about community , I mentioned that I felt safe in the community on the ward. I nearly went off on a tangent about "safe...

Community has been pottering around in my mind recently. And then I wrote this and the first half ended up being about masking, so I'm c...

I'm trying to write a post that feels like it needs to be written, but nothing I write feels quite right. Usually when I don't quite...

A year ago I was a good way along a treacherous path, with the danger increasing daily. I was terrified on that path in that dark place but ...

 If I wasn't already known as the village crazy lady then walking barefoot down the street stroking my hand with the fronds of a fabulou...

Oh bless the beautiful little cotton socks of my GP surgery (and the invention of the SHOUT service that does not require verbal communicati...

At the risk of becoming ranty, I'm turning to trusty Mr Blogger once more to solve all my life's problems. I mean, to help me proces...

Like many others, I have lived most of my adult life in perpetual pursuit of treasured time alone, getting through whatever is happening by ...

OK, it's true I didn't wear make-up on any of the other Thursday either, but that is a reference for the Cool Kids who both wear mak...

Been writing a lot, not about me. Clues as to the kind of week I've had. I felt a little bit hypocritical posting wonderful posts about ...

On Saturdays I roll out all the coping strategies.  Every Saturday is a self-care Saturday. They're not necessarily the same every week,...

I thought I'd address stigma as that is obviously one of the main aims of Mental Health Awareness Week: to get people talking and reduce...

Different days are good for different things. Just because you can’t do something today doesn’t mean it will always be like that*. When ...