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An excerpt from my memoir…. It was a whole seventeen years later, in 2006, I rediscovered the rape as I searched through my diaries while undergoing therapy for my depression. I felt uneasy about myself when I read about this incident with Vinnie, as if I were reading the diary of someone else, with her ……Continue reading Self harm and cutting - an excerpt from my memoir ‘My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me’ When I was fifteen I looked in the mirror and saw someone else. I was growing up. It was Dad who had to explain about periods and buy me my first sanitary towels. Imagine that? But it wasn’t just that. In the mirror, it wasn’t those changes I saw. And I didn’t see my skinny ……Continue reading My eating disorder - an excerpt from my memoir ‘My Alien Self: My Journey Back to Me’ I have kept every little memento of my life: in depth diaries, airline tickets, photos, letters, emails, text messages, cinema tickets and notes from people – everything and anything. I always had an inkling from a young age that my life was different, and that I might one day write my story. But it wasn’t ……Continue reading Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is debilitating but I used it to my advantage A Journal entry from 2009, not included in my memoir … THIS CONTAINS SOME OFFENSIVE LANGUAGE BEING AN UNEDITED JOURNAL. DO NOT BE PUT OFF! THE BOOK CONTAINS FAR LESS, AS IT IS MOSTLY NARRATIVE, BUT IT DOES CONTAIN SOME SEXUAL SCENES Lying on my single bed in my cold, damp room, I’m awash with ……Continue reading A Journal entry from 2009, showing just how bad BPD, depression and anxiety got for me and my relationships |
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