A Day in the Life Do you remember much of secondary school science? Bits and bobs, right? Do you remember the experiment with waves, and what happens when two wave crests combine? In this case it’s know as ‘constructive interference’. The wave crests add together to create a crest the size of the two heights combined. Conversely, when a crest encounters a trough, they add together also, but the trough is now negative, so they essentially subtract.

AD(H)D and Me I don’t think it’s a secret that I suffer from depression and anxiety. I do my best not to perpetuate the stigma of mental illness, so I talk about it a lot, I imagine often to the detriment of my friends’ attention span. I’ve always felt though that the anxiety and depression were symptomatic of something else. There was something ethereal and undefined that orbited my identity, prodding at my mood from time to time and gently knocking me into an eccentric orbit of my own.

I started this post almost two weeks ago when Claire and I were on holiday in Italy. I was having a bit of a ropey early morning, where anxiety had kept me awake, so I dragged myself out of bed and tried to think about what was going on and whether I could exorcise it with a wee bit of writing. My dad was very ill, and his prognosis not good.

Mindfulness is very much a mental health buzzword. That’s not to dismiss it mind, it’s just one of those phrases that is open to interpretation, and those interpretations differ wildly. Some of them are helpful, and meaningful, and allow people to make use of this valuable technique. Some are built around shamelessly profiteering from other people’s misery. I’m not going to give you mine. The world doesn’t need another definition…