Feb 27, 2022Melancholy Days: A letter to 2016.Dear You, We did it, you miserable bastard. I’ll let the euphoria sink in for a moment longer because of course you won’t have the faintest idea as to what I’m talking about. It is 2016 after all. You’re so vain, you probably think this letter is about you. Well…Mental Health5 min readMental Health5 min read
Jan 18, 2022I shaved my head and I feel liberated.“It’s gone, it’s all fucking gone” The first words muttered under my breath as I sat across from my reflection with two handfuls of hair in disbelief at the hairless man before me. …Mental Health4 min readMental Health4 min read
May 14, 2021Life On Loop: Confessions of a Home WorkerI’ve been living the same day on loop for six months. I’ve been living the same day on loop for six months. I’ve been living the same day on loop for six months. In true Beetlejuice fashion, a dead-eyed figure in three-day old attire and a faded mug in hand…Mental Health3 min readMental Health3 min read
Nov 17, 2020Youths stole my birdbath and I need it backYouths stole my birdbath and I need it back. That brings everything to a sum total of one birdbath, one missing phallic-shaped stone mushroom (it came with the house), a stressful environment, and 18 months of back rent for occupying the anxiety suite on the top floor of my mind…3 min read3 min read
Sep 24, 2020Breaking the Seal: A Conversation with an ImposterI break the seal to conduct drunken conversations with myself in quiet pub toilets. Friday nights used to be a lot different, I’ll set the scene. I’m four, maybe five drinks into the evening and I’ve reluctantly heard nature’s call. As I pace towards the gentleman’s room, subconsciously ensuring I’m…Mental Health3 min readMental Health3 min read
Jul 26, 2020Emerging Patterns: Why I Hate AugustIt’s happening again, it happens every August. This week I traded in my lockdown uniform of pyjamas and the same three t-shirts for real clothes and the promise of an eight till four weekly routine. Having sported six different job titles in four years, my first day of work nerves…Mental Health3 min readMental Health3 min read
Jul 19, 2020Paranoia 2020: Bedside HammerismsI SLEEP WITH A HAMMER UNDER MY BED BECAUSE PEOPLE, NO, THE WORLD IS OUT TO GET ME. False, but now that I have your attention, I think it’s time to talk about the hammer under my bed. I’m paranoid by the idea of ‘them’, the metaphorical men who want…Mental Health3 min readMental Health3 min read
Jul 4, 2020Rejuvenated productivity to emotional blunting, my year on CitalopramI don’t like the stigma around antidepressants but I also don’t like having depression. In my year taking Citalopram, I’ve experienced the positive and negative side effects of combatting depression and anxiety. As the clock etched closer to midnight, the inauguration of the New Year felt promising and assuring, a…Mental Health5 min readMental Health5 min read
Jun 28, 2020Finding Balance in the ‘New Normal’“Where do you see yourself in five years?” Having just recoiled from my first (and last) sales pitch as a three-legged chair salesman only moments earlier, I felt myself abandoning the interview, again. …Future3 min readFuture3 min read
Jun 28, 2020Sell Me A Three-Legged Chair“Well, what happened?” — I sat bewildered for a moment, inattentive to the question raised by the interviewer as I found myself inadvertently piecing together my mistakes over the last six years until I returned back to the interview. I simply answered that “I took a different career path” and bridged off into why…Employee Engagement4 min readEmployee Engagement4 min read
