There has been an absence, notable or otherwise, of my presence on various social media of recent weeks. Not limited to this blog. My unrelenting posting of pictures of sunrises and close up shots of flora and fauna, an activity some love and others, well, not so much, has slowed to the slow ambling of…
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Depression Is …
I have ummed and ahhed about putting this out there for a while now … what will people think? Will it impact negatively on my professional life, or with my professional relationships? In the workplace and/or within my business networks? Will others think worse of me? Then I think about how I’m trying to make…
Putting on a Happy Face
I had it pointed out to me the other day (and lots of other days at various intervals in the weeks, months, and even years preceding that) that I project this if not ‘perfect’ life, then defintely a happy one. Everything is nice and lovely, and my life is awesome. That I put on this…
“But What If It’s Raining?”
On the off chance you’ve just accidentally stumbled across me, and this blog, you may like to know that I’m currently conditioning my body to cope with a 40km walk along various parts of the Great Wall of China; a) just because it sounds like fun, and b) to raise much needed funds for, and…
What Depression Looks Like
I was having a rather robust conversation with a colleague of mine in Corporate Land the other week, about mental illness, and Depression, specifically. It wasn’t a debate or argument about the “selfishness” of suicide, or how depression is just a “state of mind” and if people just “think positive” or stop focussing on the…