Mental Health on Nick Perkins Archive

Childhood Bullying. Nick tells his story. – Guest post from DISCOURSE

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 11:38:42 +1000

Last week I wrote aguest post for Dr Samantha Thomas over on her blog DISCOURSE. I had planned to post it here straight after it had gone live on her site. However a couple of major things happened to me over the last week (which I’m not ready to blog about, but I will need to soon) and so I didn’t get to posting this.

The idea of being sociable seems so foreign to me

Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:50:44 +1000

I’ve never been big on making friends. It’s not that I don’t want to, I’m just really inept at it. When I’m in a social situation it is quite normal for me to sit quietly in a corner somewhere as everything else revolves around me. Occasionally I will pluck up the courage to talk, but quite often I will peer into my phone and pretend I’m doing something important. This implies that I’m not available and you don’t have to worry about me. Yet I’d love you to worry about me.

Mental Illness – it can’t go on being hidden

Mon, 01 Nov 2010 13:07:53 +1000

A blog is a personal space but it can be very hard to allow the deepest parts of yourself to be on show. I talk a lot about fat acceptance issues on this blog because it is something that is important to me and that affects me daily. There are other things that affect me daily that I never talk about on this blog, since they feel too raw to share with the world in general. One of those issues will be getting an airing today.