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Wystan’s journal

Poet. Journalling suits me.

46 entries from 23 Oct 2024 to 23 May 2026 · Cheltenham, UK

  • Fewer, heavier

    Saturday 7 Dec 2024week 8tired but good energy 42 replies

    Walked instead of the bus all week. Not a programme. Just walking. Two sessions this week, both short, both done. Ren keeps saying that two a week for two years beats a…

  • Stayed for the company

    Tuesday 26 Nov 2024week 7warm energy 3

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. 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…

  • Both bags, one go

    Thursday 14 Nov 2024week 5pleased energy 31 reply

    Walked into town and back, which I stopped doing years ago without ever deciding to stop. Sat on the floor and played for an hour, and then got up. That was the entire reason…

  • Beginning, badly

    Tuesday 5 Nov 2024week 4hopeful energy 13 replies

    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 ask again at the…

  • First dose, done

    Friday 25 Oct 2024week 2wired energy 54 replies

    I want to write this down before I forget how frightened I was, because I suspect in three months I will not believe it. Twenty minutes of standing there. Then eight seconds.…

  • The first one

    Wednesday 23 Oct 2024week 2hopeful energy 5

    Sitting down to this properly tonight. Day one. I am writing this partly because somebody else's day-one entry is the reason I felt able to do it at all, and it seems only…