I’ve felt some pain,
I’ve seen
some things,
But I’m here
now
Good Old Days
– Macklemore ft. Ke$ha
This year,
having already written a blog post (which you can read here), specifically
in preparation for the inevitable influx of content themed around suicide for
World Suicide Prevention Day; I thought I probably wasn’t going to publish any
other content… Then I found myself working on my next book – which is largely
around the reality of suicide and realised that now might be the ‘right’ time
to reveal some of the top-secret details(!) and talk about how you can cope
with reading topics like this…
My very first book; When All Is Said & Typed (which you can buy here) it was definitely a case of purely copying and pasting all of my blog posts on I’m NOT Disordered from its beginning in 2013, to the date of publishing the book in 2019. It meant that when I began considering another book, I felt it could also be based around blogging for two reasons: Firstly, I had learnt so much about blogging and I’m NOT Disordered had come so far since that first book that I had a ton of new ideas, and secondly, I felt that this book would feel so much more different if it meant I was writing it from scratch. That yes, there were blog posts copied and pasted, but they were mostly to be used as examples of the content rather than being the sole content of the book.