Tag Archives: Mood

‘Underneath the Lemon Tree’ – The Guardian’s Mark Rice-Oxley gets direct about depression….

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

March the 15th saw the publication of a new memoir – ‘Underneath the Lemon Tree’ by Mark Rice-Oxley, an assistant news editor on the foreign desk of The Guardian newspaper. It is an important book.  Seeming to ‘have it all’ … Continue reading →

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One year on: a new life – Mark’s story

Posted on March 12, 2012 by

Editor’s note: The monthly mental health guest post on No wriggling for March has been written by Mark K. Social networks provide great support to those with mental health issues and it is via twitter that I ‘met’ Mark. Writing has long been … Continue reading →

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‘Mood Food’ or Marian Keyes? ‘Saved by Cake’ & managing depression with diet

Posted on March 3, 2012 by

‘To be perfectly blunt about it, my choice sometimes is: I can kill myself or I can make a dozen cupcakes. Right so, I’ll do the cupcakes and I can kill myself tomorrow.’ So says Marian Keyes in the introduction … Continue reading →

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‘Face or figure?’ – On needing to lose a little weight in middle-age…

Posted on February 22, 2012 by

Oh dear. I have been told I should lose a stone in weight. That is something else in kilograms but it won’t sound any better. It should probably be more like two  - I have lymphoedema in my legs and … Continue reading →

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Autophobia or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love my Ego

Posted on February 13, 2012 by

Editor’s note: As we go into the second year of mental health guest posts here on No wriggling I am grateful for a contribution  from the other side of the world. Deb is well-known in the genealogy community and has a great … Continue reading →

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Fighting the fear of failure; or ‘stop titting about…….’

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

I have been a little quiet on this blog of late. I think a combination of life ‘stuff’ has meant my concentration levels are low, inspiration hard to find and that dreaded monster self-doubt whispers in my ear ‘you have … Continue reading →

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Jake Thackray – a genius….. and a genealogist?

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Having felt a little in need of cheering up recently and browsing the wonderful Spotify I quite randomly came across The Best of Jake Thackray. His biography describes him as a ‘singer-songwriter in the French tradition’ firmly rooted in the … Continue reading →

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Reasons to be cheerful…..

Posted on January 8, 2012 by

It is hard for anyone to be cheerful at the moment, although the Conservative party attempt to rival the Chuckle Brothers, David Cameron and George Osborne, always look as if they are not trying quite hard enough to suppress a smirk. Britain … Continue reading →

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‘When I have fears…’ – John Keats on self-doubt

Posted on December 28, 2011 by

At this time of year – that rather doleful time between the Christmas festivities and the beginning of a new year – it is natural to look back at our achievements over the past twelve months and assess the success … Continue reading →

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A very merry NoWriggling Christmas!!

Posted on December 23, 2011 by

This time last year I wrote a post wishing all those good enough to give No more wriggling out of writing their time a very merry Christmas, celebrating the fact that I had been blogging for a whole five months. … Continue reading →

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