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ANNUAL REVIEW I am flexing each of my fingers. I press, the tip of one into the table, see the flesh swell with the pressure I make...

THAT IRRITATING MONOLOGUE!! Those moments when you have such an argument; make ultimatums and outrageous principled statements; stand up...

WHAT KEEPS ME WELL? To be honest I rarely feel unwell. It is not a vision that suits me. That illness thing is convenient; it gives an...

Creativity and mental health West Lothian Bipolar Group 04 11 2021 Hello everyone. Today I am not here in a work role but in my role as a...

LESSONS; SO LATE. Yesterday after school, while I was making tea, Wendy took wee Charlotte down into the forest walk where the bramble...

CALMNESS, JOY, STRENGTH, FREEDOM I feel calm when... I would like to say I feel calm when I am walking with birdsong, may blossom, the...

Museo Nacional du Azuleju- Lisboa; Portugal. The cool coolness of a sacred place in Iberia. I remember this from long ago. This one is...

GETTING CLOSER TO LAUGHING IN COMPANY I get very irritated at going for my fortnightly jag, not because of my CPN, I know she is very...

WHAT IS NORMAL? Over twenty years ago, a group of people I worked with, got all fired up again with the need to challenge stigma and...

GLENARN IN SPRINGTIME. Those petals; pink blushed, translucent from the sunshine were stunning. Wendy and myself and the children had...

GEILSTON: A PLACE OF HEALING, LAUGHTER AND BIRDSONG Graham Morgan 25 03 2021 It must be six years ago that we took wee James home from...

BREAD (Written not long after my last hospital admission: strange to look back on such times and heart warming to see how life has...

WALKING IN THE SNOW (2011) I walked along the promenade, my new hat with its furry flaps keeping my chin warm though my cheeks were harsh...

TREBLINKA: 05 2012 I am on a train coming home; coming home through the honey evening hills from Edinburgh. I have been at a consultation...

TAKING A HOLIDAY FROM IT ALL; ALL OF IT! (2014) Thinking of holidays, I want a holiday from my psychiatrist. It’s not that there’s...

RUM DIARIES PRESENTS Writers Block Radio Hour Supersoundscotland.net August 2020 CONTENTEDNESS: July at night; musing when the midges are...

PEERING ROUND UNCERTAIN CORNERS – LOVE AND MASCULINITY. (2015) I peer round the corner of the corridor and I catch sight of myself in the...

I went for my jag a few days ago. This time my partner came into the room and, making chit chat with my CPN, said; “Graham’s Biceps will...

Joy Shaverien said this about Boarding School Syndrome. It had a huge effect on me when I read it a couple of months ago: “Early rupture...

I think of all those years of campaigning and how I still have no clear idea about what might make this experience bette