Most of it really happened
Start from the first blog if you like it when things make sense. Updated weekly.
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I’m in my forties…
Hi, I’m Ivy. I’m in my forties and recently moved to Adelaide under difficult circumstances. I’m catching up with people that I used to know from the country who got out of town many years ago. It’s weird seeing people who you used to party with over twenty years ago. A lot of health problems
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Team safety…
After Latuda everyday for over a month I had Olanzapine last night because I found myself being very angry, upset and unable to sleep. I do however have a right to be upset and have shared my latest situation with a few friends who agree. This blog is not funny, but a hell of a
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Acceptable in the 80’s…
Kissy Chasey is when little boys chase little girls around the playground threatening to kiss them and the girls run. I refused to run so we stood face to face surrounded by the school as if there was going to be a fight threatening to kiss each other.
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Walking on broken glass…
Years ago, when my son was quite young, he was not the sortof child that would naturally listen to his parents and do what he was told. He needed to understand why something was important and haverespect for the person in authority who was directing his behaviour. I think this is because of autism and
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Are we the baddies?
Have you ever spoken to an English person of a certain class, felt absolutely crestfallen after your encounter but unable to respond to a direct attack? So it is with policy. They wanted to wipe Aboriginal out but they didn’t want to be too obvious. Because if they marched over one hundred thousand people into…
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They did hook up…
The work that he does and the emotional support he provides to her and her son are valuable and essential for Angela to continue to be the successful woman that she wants to be.
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It’s OK to say no…
At one point a telemarketer called me while I was telemarketing asking for $20 a month for the children and I said ‘no’ because it’s ok to say no.
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What would a normal person do?
It dawned on me that while I prepared and performed a comedy routine that managed to turn post-separation abuse, chemical restraint, attempted blackmail, triangulation, and revenge porn made me empowered this whole thing has been quite traumatic.
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and one pill makes you small…
This has come up sounding like an ad for lurasidone which it is not. It is a comment asking people to demand a different antipsychotic if they’re not happy with the one that they are on rather than ‘going off meds.’ Distressing content ahead ************************************* Back in Port Pirie several years ago there was a
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We’re all confused…
Moving to Adelaide is like time travel into the future. Country life is much more conservative, even today. When I was young I lived in Port Augusta in the 80’s. There were girls toilets and boys toilets. It was not ok to be gay. And if a man wanted to wear a dress and a