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Catatonic K. Patient Expert

Sydney, Australia
I'm an editor, web designer, writer/lyricist/dreamer who lives with Depression and PTSD. But I'm... Full Bio
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Keeping Faith in the Cookie Jar. by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression My one, silent rebellion was prayer.In Oz it’s rude to talk about spirituality/religion much, certainly not the private kind so I really have no way of reading how ok yo ... Read on »
learned helplessness: of wishes and nightmares. by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression had an awful nightmare because the new house my mother and step-father have moved into is far too much like the house i grew up in, in appearance, design and no few details. i ... Read on »
Those SINsational dreams… by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression Woke up this morning feeling like I’d spent the past several days drinking absinthe with Aleister Crowley and followed it up with enough Acid to trip-out a troop of hard ... Read on »
Rapidfire Update & Taoist Trauma (opinions welcome) by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression i’d really like your thoughts on something but first, a wee update. life got annoyingly life-like recently, hence lack of bloggy goodness…between the ongoing tens ... Read on »
Schrödinger’s Migraine? skeptics, stress & serotonin. by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression this is a decidedly curious ‘migraine’.it has been about 72 hours now, give or take. i could call something at the start of the week a prodrome. or not. i could ju ... Read on »
Real Regrettable Retro Ads (Satire Sunday) by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression some ‘worst slogan ever’ contenders in this lot: *shudder* and is it just me or does this look an awful lot like Demi Moore Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver?Srsly?!OK, ... Read on »
i should have… (Practical PTSD VI) by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression once the trauma’s over, we tend to look back and wonder. and part of that looks like “why didn’t i just… [fill in the blank]” or “i should ... Read on »
speechless second chances. by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression words wander, in tight-knit circles, nearer bound and boundless dread.each moment cast with an iron sinker but all the same, round about — an approximate language i&rsqu ... Read on »
there is no other journey but the coming back to life. by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression we do not come lightly into this world but squalling, wailing, dying we enter and Begin.my first breath is my last, conjoined by opposition, drawn in and up and over by unse ... Read on »
the WMDs? oh, i gots ‘em. sorry, did you need them? by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression what’s with the Cartesian emotional states thing?seriously.yesterday was spent switching between numb and *rage*.managed to get through it and accomplish necessary if pa ... Read on »
well, he asked if I wanted to Upsize…(Satire Saturday) by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression A three-day-old baby boy, weighing 8.7-kilograms (19.2-pounds) right, lays next to a standard size newborn baby at a hospital in Kisaran, North Sumatra, Indonesia.One word: Ou ... Read on »
Nat!onal P;unctuat!on D@y Baking” Conte$t… by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression I say: this is, for me, a happy day! Iambic pentameter? Really? I worry about myself sometimes. It’s National Punctuation Day, in the USA.Who knew, right?Meanwhile, back ... Read on »
i am my nightmares’ bitch. by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression government has swiftly changed its tune from ZOMG Obesity Crisis everybody exercise until you fall over dead then we’ll flog you some more because we’re sadists an ... Read on »
There’s an eerie shroud of dust over the city… by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression 6am. Sydney. A huge mass of dust has been kicked up over the city, with gale force winds seriously reducing visibility and giving the sky this deep orange glow.There’s s ... Read on »
on trauma and fearless fear: freight trains in a deep, deep night. by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression you think you’re fine then pop goes the weasel: you lose all sense of where you were at. things go blank, paradoxically void because behind the empty is a world you cann ... Read on »
there’s random and then there’s… this. by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression this raises the bar on my randomness meter, i gotta say. i was driving home tonight, this morning, whatever — it’s 4:30am and the road is empty in front of me exce ... Read on »
the memory of broken states by Catatonic K. Patient Expert Posted in: Blog Posts in Depression I’ve found a kind of balance again. With a little help from my friends. It isn’t very balanced if you look at the details but it will do. It would do better if I c ... Read on »