Skully Adams

Creating a new narrative after mental illness

Skully — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:33:33 +0000

If you’ve suffered from prolonged mental illness it is likely that this experience has inserted a few unhelpful things into the narrative that you have about yourself. A self narrative is basically the stories we construct about ourselves from memories of our experiences. In these stories we develop connections between our experiences which forms the [...]

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One Year On (From Losing It)

Skully — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 06:40:35 +0000

Twelve months ago my sense of reality was crashing in around me. One year on things are better and I’ve learned so much. On the spectrum of psychosis or delusions or whatever you wish to call it, my split from reality was an incredibly mild affair. I was lucky. Even so, it was still a [...]

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Learning German – a slight mod to the Pimsleur method.

Skully — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 00:33:36 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve written a post on learning German… simply because I haven’t been doing much in the way of that these past 12 months, even though I still desperately want to. Realising that it takes many, many years to learn a language well, I recently decided that if I was really [...]

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Lumosity – Eight Month Update

Skully — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:18:17 +0000

Well I’ve been signed up to Lumosity for about eight months now. There have been periods when I’ve not done any training for weeks at a time but overall I’ve been averaging about 5 days of training per week. With a solid amount of time spent using Lumosity behind me it now seems like the [...]

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Respect Our Freedom

Skully — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 08:05:34 +0000

Today my home town of Melbourne has been rocked by the news that a woman who went missing in the early hours of Saturday morning has been found dead in a shallow grave in the country town of Gisborne. A man has been charged with her rape and murder. My heart sank as the devastating [...]

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Rethinking Labels of Sexual Identity

Skully — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 07:47:07 +0000

I haven’t written much about my zine work here on the blog (calling it ‘work’ seems a stretch!). Over 12 months ago I put out a zine titled No Labels: A Post-Queer Manifesto. It covers in part one of my many areas of interest.. sexuality – or more specially self, identity and sexuality – or [...]

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Depression and Denial

Skully — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:26:25 +0000

de·ni·al refusal to recognize or acknowledge; disbelief in the existence or reality of a thing; Here’s the deal: I know I have a mental illness. I know the tell tale signs of depression. But whenever those signs start signalling that things are askew, I always stick my head up the arse of denial. I tell [...]

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I WAS A TEENAGE TEMPORAL LOBE EPILEPTIC!

Skully — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:43:12 +0000

I’ve been thinking recently about the possible long-term side effects of having had simple partial seizures in my very late teens and early twenties, and what possible relationship it may have to my mental (ill)health today. When I had seizures all those years ago, I didn’t know they were seizures. They were simply weird unexplained [...]

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