Potion for your Mind’s Motion- Art, Comedy, Mental Health, Imperfect poems, Lived Experience Stories, Advice (good and bad)
What could you do more of? Stanley cannot even believe I’m about to admit this, but… I could certainly shut the fuck up, that is absolutely apparent, particularly evidenced by the fact that people who spend an hour in my company, are on average 7 times more likely to need a holiday, 10 times more … Continue reading Again, I lack present capacity for sensible answers, so you won’t get one today
What's the best piece of advice you've ever received? I’ve received a lot of brilliant advice over time, and to be honest, it’s going to be way too difficult to narrow it down, so I’m just going to come out with a recent rather hilarious piece of advice I received courtesy of a mental health … Continue reading Best advice in small packages
Which topics would you like to be more informed about? You ask, ‘which topics would I like to be more informed about?’… This is considerate of a daily question prompt, to ask, and appreciation for a false sense of a blogging app’s daily generated prompts might actually give a real fuck, about the lonesome writers … Continue reading Disclaimer: My current mood and mindset is far off the sensible’ or ‘behave like an adult’ radar. Answers to Questions may experience adverse side effects.
One of the most heartbreaking songs I ever improvised, singing out what I genuinely believed to be my last goodbyes, feeling lost to the dark and dreadful lure of suicide, I found myself singing this song because I couldn’t say the words ‘help’ any louder than I already had been doing for years in my … Continue reading The Echoes- Sounds that in fact always reverberate, even if to human ears they ‘fade’… My song which was not ‘my last’ after all.
Mental Health No more tolerance for preventable mental health related deaths by Suicide, Homicide, Self Harm, lack of capacity to remain safe and/or protected by law and human rights to the dignity and equality of access to urgent and emergency care and intervention, to prevent tragedies- So many tragedies does our UK modern day era … Continue reading Pressing the issue further
It’s supposed to be erratic dark imperfect and a touch off key. Silent imperfection of inexpressible unheard sadness grief desolation and exile. It’s not meant to be a pleasant sounding piece. It’s repetitive, grim, off key, imperfect and broken- the wavering harmony of a voice or melody chained off from help being heard or able … Continue reading Faltering, unpleasant and off key improv- symbolic and telling of the impact radio silence and isolation with zero voice or support from mental health or other services, hear how dreadful I try to express. Now my mind is decaying.
What would your life be like without music? My headline says it all and answers this daily question for you! Fucking hard and potentially beyond my limits of endurance to and through it all is what it would be, if not flatlined completely! I’d probably go out of my way to trip so hard from … Continue reading Don’t you DARE ASK!
Music is humanity in harmony- A universal language, capable of ascending the dreadful and touching the hands of the Divine. 💪❤️🎼🌈☮️🙏 So I may not be an official ‘Consultant’, but I have come to learn a thing or two about REAL medicine, and how to heal without being hindered by the corrupt Capitalist agenda of … Continue reading Musical prescriptions… Like- actually capable of causing healing
Question that’s tickling my brain: Why do people say: ‘they wouldn’t say boo to a Goose’ when trying to describe quiet/shy/reserved people? What? I’m not a quiet person at all- but I myself would not go around saying ‘BOO!’ To Geese either- who ever did say BOO to a Goose in order to be classified … Continue reading Tickling my brain- WHO ever first said ‘boo’ to a Goose- regardless of how shy!?
Because Whippets and pets of our world… ARE our world! #Stanley 🥰
Hell may burn but the light still stretches above without giving up on you, your children, or faith 🙏 Evie begins school… You weren’t even 1 year old here… Now you are a 4 year old schoolgirl… and I could not be more amazed, grateful and proud ❤️ Forget the darkness and pain I’ve endured … Continue reading More than just a silver lining
If you are a creative, you have a huge leg up when it comes to building healthy coping skills! We use creativity even in the most dry straight-… …Creative Therapeutic Techniques for Mental Health | Imagination in Therapy, Stress Reduction, and Social Engagement
If you are a creative, you have a huge leg up when it comes to building healthy coping skills! We use creativity even in the most dry straight-…Creative Therapeutic Techniques for Mental Health | Imagination in Therapy, Stress Reduction, and Social Engagement
If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell? Art materials Art LSD- Could come in different forms for consumption, such as a vape form: ‘See-an-Elf-Bar’ 🤣🤩🫠🌈 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) 🌈🤩🪩🕺💃🎶❤️☮️ High (pun in included for free) quality Cannabis not laced with any bullshit, but of a decent Amsterdam coffee shop degree … Continue reading Open for business
Web. 10 Dark Truths that will Make You Stronger. Well worthy re-blog!
Top tips for people in blips - saving yourself from suicide,
A work in progress I’m creating as I too, travel along this life’s journey 🌈❤️
vm.tiktok.com/ZGevAG7E3/ Now that I'm doing the whole sober life thing (not that I ever truly needed chemical assistance to get on the floor and rave like the dance floor is the Lord/Lordess... Lordthey -!?- to which I devote divine worship to, religiously)... I sometimes (every day) miss partying and raving my tits off, like my … Continue reading Enable the (sober life) rave, get thy hose pipe to the garden floor!
vm.tiktok.com/ZGe7TMTpV/ I'm skint, I've ran out of me meds, the mental health services in this city (barring the charity Mind), have added even more ingredients to that C-PTSD diagnosis I've been gifted by life and Psychiatrists, the Bipolar shits and giggles that in all seriousness- CLEARLY cause problems and shenanigans... The perpetrators and the global … Continue reading Oh behold all the fucks I give!
I’ve just had a really beneficial, possibly life altering conversation, with a volunteer who works for Hull Mind’s ‘Crisis Pad’ service- which I probably wouldn’t have had a need or chance to do if certain preliminary and pre-existing NHS services, tasked with the rather voluminous task of saving people’s lives within crisis mental health services… … Continue reading A thank you to a previous team, at Mind’s crisis pad- praises well worth singing for those who genuinely save lives.
How would you describe yourself to someone who can't see you? The chance to reinvent a ‘description’ so suit some eyes that cannot see me… harder than it sounds, and you perhaps I’m not actually the one best qualified anyway… Wow, I’m trying to not overthink this or overanalyse the variables which I always feel … Continue reading Ooooohhh what a question!
Written by myself, a fellow warrior of the mental health lived experience debacle, and the journey of learning how to ‘win’… You don’t have to stay strong for everyone. You don’t even ‘have’ to stay strong as a command given to your own self alone… I think you can give yourself permission and validation to … Continue reading You don’t have to be ‘strong’ all the time…
Psychedelics- I need your help (I think) A disclaimer:I don’t mean to be insensitive, I’m just really not capable of thinking without speaking first. So a good question was asked: Do blind people get the same trippy visuals when taking mushrooms? Furthermore: The real question is that when deaf people get voices in their head … Continue reading Disclaimer- This post might cause problems
open.spotify.com/track/4RurEJ0z5RQbC3bWYKwTbz Sia... 'I Forgive You' I never saw it coming, the electrifying, spine tingling and resonating enrapture, the awe, the gratitude and the falling in love with your music. https://open.spotify.com/track/4RurEJ0z5RQbC3bWYKwTbz?si=nh3muKwPTES9jc61rj_VDA&pi=e-DQmbD5XdRECZ
Which activities make you lose track of time? What a question! 😂 I can’t tell whether it’s the track of time making me lose the activities or the activities making me lose track of time!? Because believe me, they all seem to! It’s been suggested many times I get assessed for ADHD… I have tried, … Continue reading Does ADHD class as an ‘activity’!?
Words can sometimes deceive us, despite their brilliant potential, they also have a power to constrain us, and lack the power to enable certain things to be expressed… We could write and speak, mask and pretend all we like, if only we could, and also, if only we didn’t inadvertently do our mental wellbeing harm, … Continue reading Sketch your emotions free
Daily prompt- What gets better with age? My blunt answer…
‘Ellie, when I woke up and tripped over you on the floor next to the fireplace, you looked like you’d been fucked in a skip!’ -Were the words of wisdom, as the person I could swear had definitely passed out after being FAR more wrecked than I myself had wound up, the night before. Indeed, … Continue reading Throwback quotes of funnier days
Remember how you always loved to play those beautiful songs on the piano at home? How, my earliest memories of you, from the infancy of a toddler, are captured in sacred pictures and sounds, remember… I watched you in wonder, playing Canon in D, as you played, your talent moved deeply, the core of my … Continue reading Mother, remember
A short read reflecting on the gratitude I have for everything my late mother gave me while she was here, and after…
Describe one simple thing you do that brings joy to your life. Throughout life so far, I’ve tended to notice an unexpected trend, which has made itself known to me, despite extenuated hype surrounding the ‘thing’ in question, it really does seem to be the case that the ‘bigger’ the thing it is, in life, … Continue reading Love for the little things in life- love your pencil ❤️🎨
http://www.instagram.com/p/Cz9LWK3Mzmm/ ⬆️⬆️🌈💜🎵 Check out the Instagram page of the official above link, it is amazing, the creator talks about struggles with mental health, Bipolar Disorder more specifically, what it's like to live with them, in perfect but simple little images, and somehow manages to capture both the exact means of expressing something myself, and I'm … Continue reading Check this person out, she is amazing, in pictures and for real! ⬇️💜
How do you know when it’s time to unplug? What do you do to make it happen? Lush memories… Bath bomb Art, courtesy of Lush, and back when I could afford any such article 🤣 To answer today’s daily prompt of a question, I answered thus: ‘How do you know when to unplug?’ Why, When … Continue reading I’m not really in a serious mood, so…
Good intentions says this little guy, good intentions from the making of this meme- but sometimes don’t we just get sick of hearing this statement, as in to the point of screaming: ‘Fuck off, I ain’t staying strong, I’m falling apart, and I’m too damn tired out to do strong, I’m too damn low to … Continue reading Advice on the journey of healing- your mental health matters
Hypermanic polar opposites, Bipolar Disorder stirring and bubbling in a broth combined with C-PTSD and a sprinkle of ADHD… Yeah so apparently, that’s me🫨😵💫🫣 Not that my coffee table resembles any such a diagnosis at all! 😂🫣🎵 FYI- It took me fucking HOURS to concentrate enough to write this, so do me a favour and … Continue reading Bipolar ‘tomorrows’
What does "having it all" mean to you? Is it attainable? On ‘attaining it all’ Can it be done? My view: To ‘have it all’, is a misconception of any aspiration, throughout human history and everything we can ever learn and experience, whilst riding out the vast storm, a turbulence of life, tumultuous plus unpredictably … Continue reading ‘Having it all’ means having closeness to ‘no more’
Love is love ❤️
What are you good at? Defiance! Does. This. Psychedelic. Long. haired. Hippy. bird. Look. Like. A. Single. Shred. Of. Compliance. Exists? You are correct, sir. Comply and be defied against my own defiance? No fookin’ chance! 😂😂😂 Defiance is an asset, never a flaw! Remember that, kids! ‘Ok.’ Follow me for ‘Insta grams’ 😉 ⬇️ … Continue reading I am good at…
Hmmm… Hi, I’m a Gemini, and whilst playing a piano , I have managed also, to become distracted by something on saw on Facebook… Already, I think it’s possible to predict how this Gemini’s Tuesday morning tangent is going! 😂 Whilst in the middle of playing improvised songs on my piano (well keyboard, but still, … Continue reading Zodiac projections- just for fun, where does the Gemini ‘fit’?
How do you feel about cold weather? How do I feel about ‘cold’ weather.? Did you know for a start, there is no such thing as ‘cold’, just an absence of heat? You’re welcome- I’m available to defy and to confuse Ona regular basis! Returning to the point: How do I feel about ‘weather’ whereby … Continue reading Allow me to be contrary about this question…
*Delightful TW* (Because you have to add those two letters of the alphabet to anything real these days, don't you?) Credit to JoePolitics- Hilarious YouTube Video Link below: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Fucking hilarious watch- JoePolitics Because I got High YouTube ⬆️⬆️⬆️ My own original comedy Artwork which fits this so perfectly The above comedy art sketch is … Continue reading You don’t know how much I love how hilarious this is- Credit to JoePolitics- You utter legend!
POV: When you ring the crisis team Added original art by self which fits quite well with the above video: See my Gallery Page for more! Absolutely correct!
You won’t know until you know, or I’ve died trying to achieve an end which is for the greater good, particularly in terms of politics, philosophy, and end to globalised corruption, and the primary concern of helping others- most specifically in the dual circumstances of addiction and mental health- but what I’m finding out is … Continue reading A warning…
https://open.spotify.com/track/5GK4ax71sSIokiNEZsND3d?si=eUWfK-i3RCOiPpg7Igzu3w Above/or below at the end of this post , let’s find out... is a song which enabled be to rekindle the light of an identity within myself which I’d too frequently felt I could no longer discover again… I related to the first half of the song, for its harrowing, and spine tingling resonance … Continue reading Identify- Be strong tonight, and remember who you are
My go: I am the storm, replies the warrior, bellowing the words into the thunder of a roar which made time itself stand still.
For several soundless seasons passedI’ve searched my future, present, past I’m looking for the tools I hadBack in some age where days were glad I thought about the skills I had, and subsequently, I began to grope my mind Language would follow meThrough my daysThen help me translateThe joy and the wretched,The divine, the unknown,All … Continue reading Newly discovered old Poem
Jot down the first thing that comes to your mind. So the first thing that came to mind, in all honesty, when I encountered this question, was of a brick wall! What is the meaning of this!? wtf….. I can actually explain it, weirdly enough. It’s got to be a result of recently bumping back … Continue reading Question time- why brick wall!?
I don’t care anymore about holding back, this is what ‘Great Britain’ looks like today, I am not scared to share situations which others will resonate with, silently. Confession time: Yeah, cheers government emergency crisis loan, I actually ended up using the £348 you to pay for my suicide. Rather than use it for the … Continue reading How about this for a bit of raw reality, shed a little light on ‘Great Britain’s’ plight
Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often? Yes I most certainly do have quotes which I try to remember to think of, in order to assist me in the process of living life, which as we all know, turns out to be far from easy, with a continuum … Continue reading Living life with the aid of good quotes
What is your career plan? Overthrow the government, sort out the broken system with a good sound system! Rave away, Theresa May! Sunak resign- I shall initiate this redesign! All in favour say Aye!?
My Evie is four! I have been busy trying to make children’s book pictures for her, to send, and this awesome rainbow creation, gifted from the talented hand of a friend from Ground Art Group, has finally enabled me to post this... Happy 4th Birthday to my beloved, beautiful and amazing baby girl. The finished … Continue reading It’s taken me a day and night to even mention, that yesterday (6th May), my daughter Evie turned 4 🌈❤️ about this!
Just to clarify, this was never how I intended my life to turn out, but here I am, post crisis-pad intervention, distracting the emotional meltdowns which threaten my own safety keeping faculties, because of lacking options to exist otherwise. Sometimes, I can actually do other things to avoid the consequences of even trying to close … Continue reading Mania and insomnia take on Facebook adverts, for a ‘night’…
Listen to this song: https://open.spotify.com/track/05P2XnfYsMtbvajPRcLTzO?si=YkwkLWOwRMCzMyVC-DYRPA&context=spotify%3Aplaylist%3A3wiZZCpwpuuz3buVj9VkoF Obviously applies to all genders. Cock or the Pea- You’re both who I’m talking about! Fuck them off because if you have that niggling worry that your partner is a secret twat, you’re probably right, so for God’s sake, Dance your path away from them. Don’t ever be afraid to … Continue reading Worried you might be in a relationship with a cunt, but can’t quite hear your own intuition?
🥰 What are 5 everyday things that bring you happiness? This question is useful beyond measure to a great degree, especially to fall back upon in times of deep struggles. When you’re in your darkest moments, it’s far from easy to just be able to pull up a list from your head, of any single … Continue reading The famous five… top everyday things that bring me happiness
What book could you read over and over again? There isn’t much else I can possibly say. Ecstasy had me entranced from the start, I only had to read the first page, then there I was, submerged, spellbound, and transfixed. Time became an absent factor, all that mattered to me were the pages, words printed … Continue reading Absolutely Irvine Welsh- Ecstasy 🌈🦄🤩🤪🍄🎨💗
If you could be a character from a book or film, who would you be? Why? An icon of pure strength, sexy, stubborn, fiercely intelligent. Like a phoenix, Seven embarks upon a journey of rediscovering the ‘self’ after a hive mind ordeal, entrapment by Borg captivity, she had her individuality purged. Yet despite the darkness … Continue reading 7 of 9- The brilliant breaker of the Borg’s grasp, rescued by the crew of Star Trek Voyager
When you were five, what did you want to be when you grew up? My child self, not yet afflicted, totally blissfully unaware of anything other than the freedom to dream I can literally visualise the scenery and the image etched in my memory, transporting me back in time instantly, to answer this. In the … Continue reading Aspirations of my 5 year old self
⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGemaV9av/ Still pissed off? Then you’re fucked. Because you shouldn’t be. Either that, or you’ve had an Epileptic Seizure, due to my lack of warning about photosensitivity content. In which case, you’re quite right to be pissed off. Sorry I’ve just set you back to point zero in waiting for that one year seizure … Continue reading Instant bad mood reversal for those who are ready to punch a fucking train, watch this
Life, death, beauty beside decay, as ms portrayed visually, as a reminder of transformation, which sometimes only starts after death. Madness, eh! Hello hello Is anybody out there? Hello hello Can anybody hear? Hello hello All I hear are echoes I shout your name but no one hears The echoes, echoes, All I hear are … Continue reading Pending echoes- lyrics to my last song, link to recorded version yet to come!
What job would you do for free? In the midst of the madness in which I am currently (and really, always have been, but never so aware of the extent to which I am trapped inside it) I will agree with the part of myself that is commanding me to finish off some final writing … Continue reading The job I would and will always do for free- but hear me now, the world has never been so close to losing me
Writing Fanfiction in the worlds of Tolkien and Beyond!
Simple words about a complex life.
Growing Through Books, Defying Social Norms
A Journey of Mental Health Recovery
Writing Sparkle Books
Erotic stories for you
Curiosity is a Mental Wanderlust, and Mind Wandering is the process of connecting loose strings of creative thought.
Sometimes You Just Gotta Laugh
Our thoughts define us, so let's focus on a few.
Kinda a poet. Kinda a writer. But not really...
writer. rythmn seeker.
Chaos may Surround you, but Clarity is your Breakthrough.
"Most all of us are mad round here..."
Every step for a brighter path
Mind-in-motion 