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Rin’s journal

Journalling daily since week one.

46 entries from 24 Aug 2024 to 23 May 2026 · Manchester, UK

  • Stayed for the company

    Thursday 10 Oct 2024week 7warm energy 24 replies

    Quickly, before bed. 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.…

  • She reduced it

    Tuesday 1 Oct 2024week 6brisk energy 52 replies

    Took the diary in. She read it properly, which I had not expected, and changed the plan because of it. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered…

  • She read the diary

    Saturday 21 Sep 2024week 5heard energy 4

    Quickly, before bed. Asked the question I had been avoiding for eleven years. She answered it in about ninety seconds and was completely unbothered. Nine minutes. I took…

  • Beginning, badly

    Thursday 12 Sep 2024week 3hopeful energy 14 replies

    Quickly, before bed. The leaflet is nine pages and about seven of them are worst cases. I have read it three times, which was three times too many, and I am now going to stop…

  • Quiet

    Monday 2 Sep 2024week 2flat energy 41 reply

    Ten minutes then I am asleep. Quiet. Injection Tuesday, mild Wednesday, fine by Thursday, and then a normal weekend. An unremarkable week. Ate, walked, worked, slept…

  • The first one

    Saturday 24 Aug 2024week 1wired energy 54 replies

    Quickly, before bed. The pharmacist talked me through it very fast and I nodded at all of it and retained about a third. I have written down the bits I remember and I will…