Mental Illness Fellowship Northern Territory

Hi Everyone

What a lovely thread! There are some very talented souls posting here.

I just wanted to shout out that I’ve only been posting fairly regularly for over a year or so. I found it difficult to contribute at first as it took me a while to find my own groove and get over the fear that I wouldn’t fit in.

Now that time has moved on and I’m persevering I am finding the actual process of writing my thoughts about “stuff” has become a necessary part of helping me to unpack what’s in my head.

Moving from the anxious and incredibly emotional to a calmer space where even looking at my own words provides me with some much needed reflection and sanity-check.

I cannot believe how confronting it is to see what I really think (sometimes it’s just awful). First drafts can be less than ideal. But I do have a rule to “play it straight” for myself. It also means that many of my posts take a great deal of time as I want to get them “right”.

And so I guess there’s power in the written word.