Rings around the moon.

Nai,Oksygono (album) by Thodoris Sbilis There is a lot to be said about the why Dionysos is not intoxicated chaos and loss of reason. And a lot to be said about why Apollo isn't 'Apollonian' science and logic. As Gods who rule over the hidden away mental hospitals and home care, Dionysos is in the first terror-ride of psychosis, until Apollo takes you down into the sepulchre of 'Section'.  No name now, you are simply 'Service User'.  Apollo places the pill upon your tongue. A Holy sacrament to Reason. And Dionysos banished! Or so people would like to believe. Apollo is a tricky god, a Lord of poisons, plague and decay.  These are his gifts to you... Lithium is toxic. Risperidone fattens you like a sacrificial beast.  You cannot run. You must not scream... My counsel? Awareness is yours alone. I've always believed, because I read too much Jung,  that gods are the closest we get to speaking a language of mind - the whole mind that is, not just the li...

"So it's been one year really"? Yes...because I don't think it really ended, getting beaten up by her husband wasn't them ending it. I don't think it's really ended now... "It sounds to me as if he's done" "What do you think of me for saying that"? That it hurts.  It's what my friends say.  What do I think? I know that they are on my side.. "You have some good friends, most friends say 'yeah well never liked him, he's a bastard..." Yeah, they've got my back. Not sure what to say now, above is a bit of my dialogue with my therapist. Friends have been through this stuff before, friends have seen a lot, and my friends really do 'have my back'. But me? I'm down and out, I'm grieving, been grieving in and out for a year. the process interrupted again and again by hope, and disrupted by lies. Going round Tesco's today was an ordeal, my whole married life flashing before my eyes. Wanting to cur...