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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