25 January 2012
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Posted by Alice
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Every Christmas morning for the past thirteen years or more my grandparents and I have gone to see my mum. Where she is depends on what kind of year she’s had – sometimes it’s in her own flat, but other years she’ll be in the hospital. Actually, in some ways I feel that it might be better when she is in hospital at that time, as there is always company, whereas in her home she spends Christmas afternoon alone.
It’s been a while now since there was any darkness weighing down the corners of my life. I’m enjoying the normal everyday aspects of university life, friendship and family visits, and I am flying high, feeling excited and intoxicated by a new relationship. I guess that because for the moment, it’s just me, it is only me that I see.
07 September 2011
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Posted by Sunshine
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It's summer time, and for a while now things have been really good. I just came back from Zante with my brother; we decided to go together. You know, it's odd how many people asked us why we had come on holiday together and not with our friends. People didn't understand why we would want to spend two weeks together on a party holiday.
05 September 2011
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Posted by Alice
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The summer holidays at university are almost depressingly long and in my spare time I’ve been reading a book on psychology. I’ve always been interested in human behaviour; perhaps understandably – as a six-year-old living with my mother who has schizophrenia, there was a lot about humans that confused me.
19 April 2011
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Posted by Alice
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Since her medication has changed from tablet form to an injection, my mother has become a lot better. She still fixates on the tiny details that worry her in life but the conversation she makes is more what you’d expect to hear. No longer does she talk about voices or tell us that the neighbours are stealing her keys or even, as she said on one memorable occasion, that the helicopters are spying on her.
10 February 2011
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Posted by Alice
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This Christmas I went to visit my Mum for the first time in about four months. From her reaction – or rather her lack of reaction – you would have thought she’d only seen me yesterday.
15 December 2010
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Posted by Alice
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At 18 years of age, it seemed that I was responsible for my mother, who is nearly 50. I had just finished my A Levels and was pretty much packed for university when I got the call. I’m my mum’s next relation and, as such, I need to be asked before she can be sectioned.
05 August 2010
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Posted by Pyp
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For those that are keeping up with my blog, you may have read about all
of the frustrations that have cropped up recently, some of them are
getting sorted, but some of them are well, shall we say ongoing. The
flat is still falling to bits, but there is not a lot we can do about
that. A computer was given to us by my girlfriend’s mum, so that is at
least sorted out. The computer is my ultimate distraction method and as I
have social anxiety, it is my lifeline really.
31 January 2010
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Posted by Mhairi
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When I was younger, my older brother and I were very close. There was only a year and a half between us. I always looked up to him. Anything he did, I wanted to do. He looked out for me. His friends looked out for me.
25 January 2010
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Posted by Izzy
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I thought it might be helpful to share some of my experiences with medication, since I’ve been on several now and I am currently in the process of starting on a new one. Different antidepressants will work for different people, and will
bring out different reactions and different side effects, so my
experiences are by no means representative of how anyone else’s will
be. But whenever one of these drugs has had a weird effect on me I have
found it comforting to read other peoples experiences and find out that
I’m not alone.
