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‘Love Letters by Lucy’
Are PMDD and Bipolar Similar?
The comparison between Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) and Bipolar Disorder sparks discussions. Unraveling the complexities and nuances within these conditions unveils both shared traits and distinct characteristics.
Changing the world from the supermarket car park
Something very little but lovely happened today.
I needed a shopping trolley but didn’t have a pound coin to put in the trolley release thing. A man who had earlier walked passed me and must have heard me talking about it with my son, came back to us after entering the supermarket. He took a shopping trolley ‘token’ off his set of keys and gave it to me with a smile, telling me to keep it.
She is me. You are me. I am you. We are we.
All I know is this: Ten year old girls are ten year old girls. Children are children and children grow into adults. I know it often feels to me like yesterday that I was a child too. I also know that it does not matter one jot where children originate from; what colour, class, nationhood, religion or creed they inherit as a geographic accident of birth. They are children. ‘They’ are human. They are not just ‘others’ to be put in a de-humanised group so they can, over time, be acceptably eradicated. No, ‘they’ are you and she is me, you are me and we are all just, we.
Don’t waste my time
Time is our most precious resource. Time allows us space to be peaceful so we can feel into our truth. Space to heal. Space to watch, listen, read and contemplate. Time gives us space to create. Space to manifest the glory of the benevolent universe as it wishes to be channeled through us.
Let’s get out of debt. Stay out of debt & live fabulously!
Why does no body talk about money? Why am I here? Ie. Just for today, unable to afford a coffee if I leave the house? I've earned millions in my life time and helped others do the same. In the past I bought and sold three properties and made hundreds of thousands of pounds in profit from those house sales. But right now, I am here. Officially financially f*cked. I have hit a financial rock bottom.
A personal history of pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder
If the weather was bad at weekends I might make a camp in the downstairs loo and spend hours in there nesting and talking to imaginary friends. It kept me entertained for days on end. In my land of Dickensian make believe, I was always the strong big sister who was tasked with saving many vulnerable younger siblings from starvation or disaster.
Selling rocks and stones
Selling rocks and stones
What is feminine power?
What is feminine power?
Don’t worry darling
We women of the 2020s find ourselves in an interesting predicament. Emmeline Pankhurst led a well meaning bunch of revolutionary foremothers, with whom I would most definitely would have been marching had I been born a century earlier. They did much to liberate us from the XX chromosome-stymying perils of Victorian patriarchy (I feel this liberation keenly as I know categorically that my cyclical bouts of PMDD (or as the Victorians would have termed it ‘Hysteria’) would have had me incarcerated in a mental asylum for much if not all of my adult life had I lived then).
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