Category: Blogs
Remission and relapse.
Remission & Relapse Historians tend to refer to continuity and change, the mainstay interpretations of what has happened and what it means (at least at A-Level). I wonder if Doctors (of mental illnesses) are as concerned with continuity and change, their obsession with relapse and remission being an inevitable legacy Read more
Sleepwalking Through the Fire
Maddie woke up around 10 am in a panic. She had totally overslept, and she was an hour late to sign on for work. She stumbled over to her laptop and quickly surveyed her emails and chats, figuring everyone on her team was probably looking for her and wondering where Read more
Room Fifteen
*Trigger Warning Swinging from a beam, I shudder, not in fear or fright, but glee, that I have the power (even in my state) to rub myself clean. On the cusp of my neck snapping, tugging as the coarse grains of the noose tighten further, against my pallid, exposed neck, Read more
Unexpected
It nestled in her, rising and falling with each exhalation. For her, pregnancy and fear went hand in hand. The minutes waiting for the result to show on the test. Peering this way and that, is it a line or a shadow. Then holding on, holding on so tightly, hoping Read more
THE LOST BROTHER: part 3
In June, I called Mimi for her birthday. In a delighted voice, she told me that Mom had tied balloons to the mailbox that said, “Happy Birthday, Mimi.” She sounded like a child instead of an adult turning twenty-seven. My heart constricted with pity. I didn’t know how to respond. Read more