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How to Tell if You are a High-Functioning Alcoholic

Six things to look out for if you’re worried about your drinking. — Sarah Allen Benton’s book, Understanding the High-Functioning Alcoholic explodes old stereotypes of alcoholism. She explains that these ideas are not only wrong but dangerous. It’s something I’ve written about before, the lesser understood fact that there are many different types of alcoholics or people with Alcohol Use Disorders (AUDs)and…

Addiction

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How to Tell if You are a High-Functioning Alcoholic
How to Tell if You are a High-Functioning Alcoholic

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What Adele’s Relationship with Booze Reveals About Our Drinking

To live her highest potential she needs to quit the booze, so why will she start again? — Adele hit the news this week because she’s giving up alcohol. Is it strange that this is newsworthy? Perhaps. Does this say more about our obsession with celebrities or alcohol? I’m not sure. Reading the story I was struck by: a) how even millionaire hitmakers find 21st Century life…

Addiction

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What Adele’s Relationship with Booze Reveals About Our Drinking
What Adele’s Relationship with Booze Reveals About Our Drinking

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This Is What Narcissistic Triangulation Looks Like

Behaviors to watch out for so that your relationships stay healthy. — When I was nine years old I had a beautiful, charismatic best friend. Jessica was pretty, kind, clever and funny, and we had the best time together. Making up plays and dreaming of boys, we got on a treat if it was only the two of us. Add another player…

Mental Health

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This Is What Narcissistic Triangulation Looks Like
This Is What Narcissistic Triangulation Looks Like

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How Therapy Fails Women With Autism

Or how I spent hundreds of pounds not solving my biggest problems really slowly — Nice white lady #1, 2015 Trigger: A friend pushed me to go to the doctor after I admitted to having suicidal thoughts. (Apparently, this is alarming. Who knew?) I cried to the GP and was given a prescription for Citalopram and a number to call the Talking Therapies team. Three months later I sat in…

Autism

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How Therapy Fails Women With Autism
How Therapy Fails Women With Autism

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My Therapist Helped Me Own My Decision to Get Sober

Our conversation helped me stop over-explaining my choice. — I’ve been sober for six years now, and I no longer get defensive about my sobriety. But for the first few years, I felt pressure to prove my drinking was really bad. Like I needed permission to quit from the drinker’s club. …

Addiction

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My Therapist Helped Me Own My Decision to Get Sober
My Therapist Helped Me Own My Decision to Get Sober

Apr 27

6 Years Sober and Rewilding

Reflections on consciousness, newts, gardening and sobriety — Last week I was six years sober, and I didn’t even write about it. Yet. Because I can’t stop gardening. Lately, I’ve been spending every spare moment in the garden. Is this procrastination? I’m on the second draft of my third novel, after all, and have hopes of finishing it…

Nature

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6 Years Sober and Rewilding
6 Years Sober and Rewilding

Mar 2

Are You Able to Create a Birthday You Actually Enjoy?

39 Years Old, 5.5 years sober, 1.5 years Actually Autistic, and I finally nailed it. — Enjoying a birthday sounds simple, but historically I’ve found it hard. There have been years where I’ve worried about ageing, years where I haven’t wanted to ‘make a fuss’, years where I’ve been flat out depressed (without realising). There have been years I organised things that weren’t to my own…

Addiction

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Are You Able to Create a Birthday You Actually Enjoy?
Are You Able to Create a Birthday You Actually Enjoy?

Feb 2

To what extent does music have the power to make us feel better?

Emotional dysregulation and listening to the War on Drugs — Throughout my life I have enjoyed listening to melancholy music and sinking into the deep sadness that seems to reside in my gut. I think this started in my late teens. I recall answering my bedroom door to my housemate in halls with a tearful expression and some kind of…

Autism

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To what extent does music have the power to make us feel better?
To what extent does music have the power to make us feel better?

Dec 31, 2021

52 Weeks of One True Yes and One True No

Join me in a year of unmasking, and find a more authentic you 🥳 🤷 🥰 🤔 — Intermittently in my life, I feel myself waking up. A new burst of inspiration and understanding comes, and I feel ALIIIIVEEEEE. I see the world around me and inhabit my body better, stop living so completely in my head. This has happened recently. Perhaps because of the extended time of…

Autism

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52 Weeks of One True Yes and One True No
52 Weeks of One True Yes and One True No

Dec 15, 2021

Exploring the link between alcohol, women and autism

A discussion of how gender, disability and drinking interact — Those of you curious or invested in discussions of autism and alcohol, may be interested to watch this. Claire Davey, a PhD Candidate researching sobriety, alcohol and gender at Canterbury University, interviewed me for Club Soda, and we had a fascinating conversation about drinking, sobriety, mental health and autism. We…

Autism

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Exploring the link between alcohol, women and autism
Exploring the link between alcohol, women and autism
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