Category: addiction

• The first time

  If you’ve been following this blog for a long time (thank you to my besties who have been with me since day one – all those years ago), then you’ll know I have a really long, messy, seriously fucked up history with a guy called Matt. The other day, I logged onto Facebook and saw…

  janetdthomas77

  February 12, 2023

  addiction, happy memories, identity, Illness, Life, loss, love, Protecting myself, Relationships

  crush, heartache, summerloving, teenagelove

• Bloganuary 3 – What is the first memory you have?

  I read in a psychology book once that happy, stable people – people confident in who they are – have a happy first memory. Interesting to find that the first memory was common in so many of them – it was usually when they were doing a happy activity and most of them had height…

  janetdthomas77

  January 4, 2023

  abuse, addiction, alcohol, bloganuary, communication, family, identity, Life, loss, love, Mindfulness, worth

  bekind, bloganuary, bloganuary2023, bloganuaryprompt, children, givecompliments, parents, stoptheabuse

• Bloganuary 1. Yass!!!

  Guys, if you’ve signed up to Bloganuary (I’ll find the link and paste it below), then click on here for the daily writing question/prompt: https://bloganuary.wordpress.com/ #bloganuary #pumped #bloganuary2023 Today’s is: WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO ACHIEVE THIS YEAR? Hmm. So many things – as always. But! For today’s blog, the main thing is for me…

  janetdthomas77

  January 2, 2023

  addiction, bloganuary, food, identity, Mindfulness, overeating, Walking, weight, Work

  bloganuary, bloganuaryprompt, bloggers, dailychoicesmatter, gotta change, loseweight, toofatnow

• Dangerous Territory

  Full disclosure guys, (maybe you’ve even already read about it so it won’t come as a surprise to you) I USED TO BE A STALKER. Something I’m deeply ashamed of and given the choice, I keep under wraps and try not to bring up/talk about. It was a dark, confusing time in my life and…

  janetdthomas77

  October 30, 2022

  addiction, anxiety, Facts are facts, Fears, hospital, identity, Illness, Jealousy, Life, loss, obsessed, Relationships, sex, stalking

  anxiety, depression, Life, mental illness, obsession, stalker, stalking

• The heart of my Memoir

  I signed onto a free online class about Memoir writing today. It was difficult to concentrate solely on the class and not look around the room or let my mind drift off to other things. Something I picked up on was finding the heart of my Memoir. The Lecturer said her Memoir started out as…

  janetdthomas77

  October 29, 2022

  addiction, anxiety, Author life, books, Christian life, communication, dating, family, Family Obligations, Favouritism, Fears, Friends, goals, happy memories, hospital, Humour, identity, Illness, Jealousy, Life, loss, love, marriage, memoir, mental illness, obsessed, Relationships, sexlife, siblings, suicide, worth, Writer, writing

  2ndmarriage, abuse, acceptance, addiction, advice, anxiety, authenticity, author, Author struggles, authorlife, authors, authorsLife, backstories, backstory, battles, blessings, bloggers, book production, bookgoals, bookreview, books, boys, breakups, buddingauthor, buddingwriter, canweevergoback, changedforever, chapterhook, redraft, rewrite

• Writer’s homework

  My book Coach Annie sent me ‘homework’ to do regarding my Memoir and I wanted to share my answers with you…because…why not? (just quietly, I am an attention whore and love it). Here you go: Writing exercises: What is your memoir’s working title? Why did you choose it? What other titles have you considered? Why…

  janetdthomas77

  October 17, 2022

  abuse, addiction, anxiety, Author life, books, communication, family, Favouritism, Fears, Friends, goals, identity, Illness, Life, loss, love, memoir, mental illness, Relationships, Writer, writing

  author, authorlife, memoir, memoirwriting, thestruggleisreal, Writer, writing

• HOW IS THIS OK?!?

  Yesterday was a really, really hard day. I was climbing the walls in an extremely high state of distress and no matter how many times I waited to be seen at the Nurses station, asked for help, got told “yes, in a minute – go back to your room and put some mindfulness and distress…

  janetdthomas77

  October 10, 2022

  abuse, addiction, anxiety, Burnt out, death, depression, Friends, grief, hospital, Illness, Life, loss, rest, self help

  anxiety, depression, grief, Life, mental illness, sucidalAF, thisclosetodying

• “I can take it”

  

  I want to help whenever I see someone hurting. I can’t seem to help but want to go over to them, put an arm around them or automatically lift up the other end of whatever huge burden they’re pulling along behind them so that between us, the burden won’t be as heavy on that person.…

  janetdthomas77

  October 8, 2022

  abuse, addiction, alcohol, anxiety, bullies, coercive control, death, depression, Fears, fed up, Grieving, hospital, Illness, loss

  anxiety, aroughday, burdenened, depression, family, grief, hospital, mental illness, psychpatientsshouldcomewithawarning, psychward, traumatised, triggerwarning

• What could have been

  I’ve seen the same guy on the train for the last few days and he looks a lot like my friend Troy. He’s always on his phone and wears a brown jacket and dark grey jeans. I wonder where he goes? Maybe to work? He must be a creature of habit like me because we…

  janetdthomas77

  August 25, 2022

  addiction, grief, hospital, identity, Illness, mental illness, Relationships

  addictedtosugarandsalt, backstory, conflict, dark thoughts, dating, decisions, destruction, foodaddictions, friendsarekindnotcruel, friendsarelife, friendship, friendshipistwoways, friendswillliftyouup, good memories, Health, hospital, Hospital visit, intruder, losing a friend, lostalovedone, mental illness, mental illness awareness, mentalhealth, narrative, notafriend

• Every little step

  Food is my obsession I think about it all the time Like a gun barrel held to my temple I am hostage to it’s demands But if I eat it I’ll be ugly Cast out Unwanted Fat The worst word in my world So I empty it into a bin Crying as it slips into…

  janetdthomas77

  July 1, 2022

  addiction, Fears, food, Life, loss, overeating

  battles, Eating disorder, fighter, foodaddictions, wontquit