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 |  My 2nd blog! An account of my life as I try to recover from (or manage) mental illness. |
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Planet Me      ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** Hello, I'm Ghostranch  , also known as Jess. Welcome to my second blog, which is a continuation of my first blog, "Invalid Item"  . Here I will keep writing about my life as I work hard to recover from various mental health conditions and turn things around, hopefully achieving my ultimate dream of being able to find and hold down a job.* I'll be honest, things will get ugly in here at times! That is the nature of mental illness and I use blogging as an emotional outlet to cope with this. I hope my faithful reader(s) will continue on this journey with me and that any new readers who happen to stumble upon this strange planet won't be too freaked out and will actually decide to stay. All are welcome here! I'll try not to be overly crazy! *I actually achieved this in February 2015, becoming a part-time Support Worker. Then in October 2015 I got a new job as a Clinical Support Worker and have been working full-time when my health permits. My goal now is to maintain this job and study a MSc Psychology Conversion course in September with a view to becoming a Clinical Psychologist or a Social Worker. It's a BIG dream! Sometimes I feel like I can do it, and sometimes I don't. I suppose only time will tell! I'm docked at "Blog Harbor from The Talent Pond" , a safe port for bloggers to connect. ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** |
| So... this is my new blog! How does it look? I've had that planet image for years and always thought I'd use it in my next blog. It feels kind of weird to not stick with the ghost theme though so I may end up changing it. I am feeling unsettled about closing "Invalid Item" , which is silly, I know! I just don't cope very well with change. But I'm sure I'll get used to it! Things are really difficult for me at the moment but I'm going to save that for a later entry. I only want positivity in this opening entry! So good things... well, I've had my first Haiku published. Yep, it's in the current edition of Blithe Spirit, the Journal of the British Haiku Society (http://britishhaikusociety.org.uk/journal/). I'm very excited about this, especially as the journal is pretty highbrow. It feels wonderful to see my name in there! And it's going to be awesome being able to say in future submission letters that I'm published in Blithe Spirit. My other poem will also be published some time this year, so that's something else to look forward to. Though it is driving me absolutely insane, I am making slow but steady progress with my job application form and I've had some incredible feedback from a fellow WDC member, for which I am extremely grateful. I feel like I'm nearly there with it and can't wait to get it sent off -- I never want to have to fill in a form like this again! I don't think I plugged my most recent campfire poem, so I'll do that now. I'm pretty happy with this one:
And I got a beautiful ribbon for one of my other campfire poems, so that was great:
I accidentally scheduled three appointments for tomorrow so I'm going to be extremely busy!  In the morning I'm meeting with someone from the National Careers Service to get them to look over my application. Hopefully that will be useful! In the afternoon I have a hospital appointment following up on a procedure I had back in November. That isn't going to be fun, so enough said on that. In the evening I have an appointment with my therapist and I'm hoping that will help to relieve some of the stress I'm currently feeling! I think I've said enough for this opening entry! It feels good to be back blogging again.  |
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