by Sophie - 16 January 2011
This wasn’t very easy to write, you have all been so supportive of me and I have been in this community quite a few years now (setting aside arguments on whether we really are a community). As you all know I’ve been going down a journey lately that has lead me to be more at peace with the fact that I can walk, I’ve not used a wheelchair for four years now and that doesn’t bother me in the slightest anymore. I feel like I’m in a place where I have a chance of living a normal life and being happy with it.
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by Sophie - 20 September 2010
I seem to constantly feel the need to explain myself, justify myself, and at times convince others that my life is good. I’m not a pathetic loser who sits at home all day. I’m someone who’s made positive steps to do something good with my life beyond what secular society expects of me. People seem to think it’s okay to tell me I’m a drama queen, or that I over exaggerate my physical problems.
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by Sophie - 26 August 2010
Life has been good for me, my BIID is still as low as it could be without actually getting rid of it and I can only attribute that to God. With the other issues I’ve dealt with I’ve become more and more confident in talking to people about things I’m passionate about.
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by Sophie - 21 July 2010
It’s getting harder and harder not to use labels in life. We all like the idea of using labels, it would mean we’d fit into something easy and predictable compared to what the norm actually is. In regards to BIID although specific labels are argued, a lot of us are happy to put ourselves under a label if it means we get the help we need, we consider labels a means to an end.
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by Sophie - 9 July 2010
As I’ve said before I’ve been spending time with Gwen talking and praying about stuff. I’d told Gwen right at my first meeting with her about my BIID and she made sure I knew that she understood what it meant to have your brain telling you something that makes no sense whatsoever. She’s never tried to trivialise this part of my life but she did have a secret suspicion that my BIID would become easier to manage once I’d started dealing with my other problems. She was right.
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