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Dear Diary: Eat(un)well
A tell-tale sign of the onset my migraine is an urgent need for sugary, fatty or salty goodies. It’s part of my bundle of prodrome symptoms that I’ve learned over …
Welcome Note
Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. It will never go away; I will always be in pain; I feel so sad are the mantras of those who …
Tough Love: Extract from fictionalised dialogue with Community Psychiatric Nurse
…”I’m back again because of problems with my mood. I still don’t feel like I’m stable from coming off anti-depressants as an anti-migraine treatment about a month ago when the …
Dear Diary: Mind Games
One tells oneself, over and over, that the headache is just nerves and blood vessels, but the headache feels so much like an event within the mind that one becomes …
A polite note on tact
Since I’ve been gingerly re-entering the workforce and community a number of people have been commenting along the lines of an enthusiastic, Lovely to have you back and that you’re …
Scanning through my emails….
…. I keep seeing paragraphs like this Things have calmed down a bit, which is good. Home will hopefully be relaxing too – the last few months have been blotted out …
Thank you letter to the Anxiety Rabbits
I’d like to write a letter of appreciation to my anxiety rabbits but first I need to introduce them and explain who they are. After a recent meeting with my …
Email to a scientist friend
Hey-lo lovely [name] how are you? did your thing go ok yesterday? thanks for calling me out on the conversational tic of blaming things on medicine side effects. I can …
To the person I had that all encompassing totally losing-my-shit shouting match with,
I know you were really frightened with and felt way out of your depth, not only with my health problems (which were only starting to hit the fan after a …
A letter of new appreciation for my brain chemistry: Extract from an email to a friend
…MY GOD! Drugs are doing crazy chemical things to my brain!! My days go like this…. Feel a-ok Suddenly become very anxious about a thing I’d previously felt very relaxed …
Open Letters on Migraine 