Monday 28 May 2012

First Post


This first post is, for me, akin to giving an awkward acceptance speech when I wasn't expected to win: I don't quite know what to say and am not sure what the hell I'm doing here. Equally, I'm painfully aware that I'm basically wittering away to myself at this point, which I guess is nothing new. I'd like to thank myself for getting off the sofa and getting in to bed with my laptop to write this, and apologise to my milk-white legs for not being outside paying homage to the sun gods instead. I'll make it up to you, honest.

I'll begin by stating the bleedin' obvious: Nut Job is not my middle name. I'm just poking fun at all the uneducated morons people out there who so eloquently use such derisive language to describe people with mental health "issues". The same people might also consider it a linguistic catchall for members of the human race who've committed terrible crimes: It might be easier to stoke your apathy with this attitude, but its not OK to tar me and millions of others with the same brush as the paedos, wife beaters and murderers of the world, most of whom are, in fact, completely sane. There is a world of difference between genuinely wicked, and genuinely mentally ill people, folks.  

I guess I'm one of those "genuinely mentally ill" people. It's not my defining characteristic, but it has impacted my life in major ways. I've found a lack of space on the Internet in to babble on about the realities of living with mental illness, so I've created my own. I guess that's it for now...hello void, and thank you.