Tag Is NOT Funny

Tag by `kris-wilson

Tag by `kris-wilson

So, TwinDaddy thought it would be funny to tag me and give me a bunch of work. [Edit: apparently Combat Babe, thought that as well!]

As if my life isn’t already busy enough.

Anyway, he was nice enough to show appreciation for my post ‘I Am God‘, so now I kinda feel like I owe him. [Edit: and I'm just going to answer Combat Babe's questions, kinda, cause I don't know why]

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Guest Post: Coping with Clinical Depression

Today, I am welcoming my first Guest Blogger: Duncan Swallow from Nobody’s Reading Me. As of now, I’ll be featuring a guest blogger every Wednesday, so if you’re interested in becoming a guest blogger, contact me using this form!
Clinical Depression - Sorrowing old man ('At Eternity's Gate') [1890] by Vincent van Gogh

A great caption of clinical depression: Sorrowing old man (‘At Eternity’s Gate’) [1890] by Vincent van Gogh
© Wikimedia Commons

This is a privilege I didn’t expect. To be allowed to guest on this blog.

Here I am.

I’m rather flattered but a bit surprised. This blog is concerned with very serious matters, much of them to do with mental health. Depression (I’m a lifelong sufferer as it happens), dysthymia and PTSD. On my blog I write about polar bears, zombies, aliens, pirates and how to sell cathedrals. If we were actors, Daan would be Laurence Olivier playing Henry V and I’d be Errol Flynn playing Robin Hood, swinging off chandeliers with a sword clamped in my grinning teeth, having a ball.

But I can do serious, sometimes. This is me being serious.

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I Am God

In my Father's Arms by ~Tazzer27

In my Father’s Arms by ~Tazzer27

And so are you – Wanna know why? Keep reading!

I am not religious. I am not an Atheist. I find comfort in not knowing — and not caring.

Maybe God is our father, maybe he’s our great-greater-greatest-grandfather and his children died ages ago.

I don’t know, and I don’t care.

What I do know, is that I AM a father and I don’t want my son to grow up, spreading the word about how powerful I am and how everyone should fear and obey me.

The only thing I care about, is that HE thinks I’m awesome and powerful and that one day he’ll take my example and do anything he can to be the greatest possible example for his children.

Isn’t that what every father wants?

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