by Lulu The Green Fairy | Feb 16, 2020 | Blog, Personal Stories
Sometimes my skin doesn’t quite fit. I wriggle inside of it, like there’s some kind of alien being trying to get out. I look in a mirror and wonder who I am. I can be at home yet still feel lost; feel emptiness even with a full life. The safe zones that anchor me can...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Feb 5, 2020 | Blog, Mental Health, Personal Stories
Recently, whilst walking through town, I became temporarily dissociated. My physical presence felt detached from my surroundings and my senses shut down to the point of numbness. Nothing beyond my self felt real, and even the self felt curiously alien. WebMD describes...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Sep 17, 2019 | Mental Health, News, Personal Stories
Here in the UK we have a system called IAPT – Improved Access to Psychological Therapies. The waiting list is quite long, but, I decided to go along to see what it is all about and if the therapy could be helpful. So, I made the appointment and, initially my therapist...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Aug 21, 2019 | Mental Health, Personal Stories
Have you ever noticed the light as it falls across a garden or parkland? I mean really noticed, not just seen it, but felt it as every shadow taints the foliage, like an angel’s breath has whispered over the landscape, changing the tones; noticed how every sparkle of...
by Lulu The Green Fairy | Jul 29, 2019 | Personal Stories
There are days when we can all feel disengaged from material reality. The mind can drift apart from the physical world and take us out into an unknown zone of dissociation. Unplanned feelings like these can just happen sporadically and we are left feeling empty and...
