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  • I have started

    Tobias15 Aug 2024nervous energy 1turning point

    Recording this for the record. I told one person. Not my mother, not work. One person, and only because she asked me a direct question at the right moment. A first…

  • Anchored to the shifts

    Winnie15 Aug 2024organised energy 3

    A gentle week, mostly. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Tested three…

  • The list on the fridge

    Gigi14 Aug 2024steady energy 5

    Evening. Protein first, everything else after. It is not interesting advice and it is the only advice that has changed anything. Spread it across the day instead of…

  • Nothing to report

    Kez14 Aug 2024steady energy 2

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. Nothing to report. Writing it down…

  • Grip

    Lu14 Aug 2024tired but good energy 5

    Came back after a bad fortnight without trying to make up the lost ground, which is the thing that used to end it for me every time. Grip strength has gone off and I…

  • Flat, whole night

    Marnie14 Aug 2024pleased energy 3

    Short one tonight. Swam. First time since school. Two lengths, badly, grinning. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I…

  • A different shape

    Maryam14 Aug 2024rested energy 3

    Notes for the week. Waking at four again. Not anxious, just awake, lying there listening to the boiler. Vivid dreams, every night, the sort you have to sit up and…

  • Circle tonight

    Nan14 Aug 2024warm energy 2

    The facilitator stopped the room when four of us were talking at once and asked one person how she was actually doing. It changed the whole hour. Circle tonight.…

  • Quiet

    Norah14 Aug 2024flat energy 4

    Right. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my…

  • Somebody new

    Salma14 Aug 2024warm energy 3

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Somebody new tonight, terrified, exactly where I was in the spring. I said the thing that had been said to me and watched it…

  • What is your secret

    Sam14 Aug 2024awkward energy 3

    Notes for the week. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze completely. Still working out what I want to say to that. Starters as a main course, permanently. No…

  • She stopped the room

    Birdie13 Aug 2024warm energy 1

    Went for the practical answers and stayed for the company, which I gather is what everybody does. Circle tonight. Eight of us, an hour, and about eleven minutes of…

  • No news

    Dilly13 Aug 2024flat energy 5

    Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole thing. An unremarkable…

  • The question I had been avoiding

    Gavin13 Aug 2024brisk energy 5

    Late, and writing anyway. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. She reduced…

  • No news

    Gus13 Aug 2024fine energy 2

    Steady. That is the whole entry. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken my medication on the correct day for the eleventh week running.…

  • Steady

    Hedda13 Aug 2024fine energy 3

    An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept adequately. This is what most of it looks like. No news. The dog is well, the weather has been foul, and I have taken…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Ozzy13 Aug 2024organised energy 1

    Right. Small logistics win: worked out where the pen actually lives in a fridge shared with four other people and a toddler's yoghurts. Anchored injection day to my…

  • Not writing about this would be dishonest

    Patrick13 Aug 2024sore energy 3turning point

    A quiet week. Bad week and I am writing it down anyway, because a journal that only contains the good weeks would be a lie and no use to anybody reading it later. A…

  • She read the diary

    Posy13 Aug 2024heard energy 4

    Left with a printout I could not read and no idea what to be worried about. Taking it to bloodwork-buddies on Thursday. Took the diary in. She read it properly, which…

  • I nearly did not write

    Prue13 Aug 2024fine energy 4

    Nothing to report. Writing it down anyway, on the theory that a journal made only of eventful weeks would give a false impression of the whole thing. An unremarkable…

  • Both bags, one go

    Priya13 Aug 2024pleased energy 5

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason I started, and I have now done it. Got…

  • Sunday lunch

    Toby13 Aug 2024awkward energy 1

    Quickly, before bed. A wedding. Three courses I could not face, a table of people who noticed, and a very kind waiter who boxed it up without saying a word. Sunday…

  • A new bin and a plan

    Viv13 Aug 2024organised energy 4

    Right. Anchored injection day to my shift pattern rather than to the calendar, which solved a problem I had been feeling guilty about for four months. Two lines a day…

  • Starters as a main

    Lena12 Aug 2024awkward energy 4

    Notes for the week. Sunday lunch at my grandmother's. Small plate, long afternoon, no drama, and she was happy. Somebody asked what my secret was and I froze…