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Mike Douglas
- Oct 11, 2016
- 4 min
Mike Douglas
- Sep 3, 2016
- 1 min
Distracting myself as an episode starts
I can feel that emotion building. It's not a particular emotion, I don't think just a heightened sense. My body having felt exhausted has collapsed on the sofa, then started small twitches in my arm. I opened my eyes to awake from the inner me. My body now tenses. First my stomach, which causes me to curl up as my chest tightens. My shoulders and arms are pulled inward. In slight breaks from the tension my body seems to gasp for air, for freedom from this increasingly restric
Mike Douglas
- Sep 3, 2016
- 2 min
My Episodes - a Mental Health Story
I can feel myself zoning out, my consciousness changing. My eyes become fixed on one point. It's a struggle to move my focus, but I am also trying to focus to focus my thinking. That makes me chuckle, in so many ways it seems like a metaphor for what I feel is going on. A struggle within a struggle. Once my eyes are fixed I find my body starts to become less mine, and more one I exist within. I am now a smaller me within this body. I'm shouting, "move, think of something else
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