Mental Wiring

I apologise to anyone that may have 'subscribed' to the blog previously and may have, left due to my inactivity. It has been quite a busy time with the lead up to my son's confirmation, and the time around and immediately after has been quite uncertain which resulted in me taking a self-imposed banishment back to Liverpool for a couple of weeks to evaluate my position in Ireland. I am due to return tomorrow - if anyone is please this is happening, but I doubt there are very few. I joined the Royal Corps of Signals at 16 as an apprentice/junior soldier in the hope of escaping a largely unhappy childhood home which was further exacerbated by Hillsborough and the fallout from that especially the educational side of things.  I army, I hoped would provide me with an escape route and the chance to get a trade as I'd joined as an Apprentice Telecommunications Technician - a skill/trade that would see me through life. I have to admit finding it very hard even from the outset: f...

When I started to write this blog, I suppose I decided that I didn't want it to be (totally) autobiographical even though I was writing about my own personal experiences, but my primary aim is to write about my personal experiences in a wider sense.  I do remember saying in my original piece that we all share similar experiences to some extent.  I know also that I said this was also about my journey to being diagnosed with ADHD, along with other diagnoses, treatments and non-treatments along the way.   I know to a large extent my mental health history has gone a long way into getting my ADHD diagnosis, and by that measure, that road been a long one, and why at this moment I plan to breakdown into three blogs - hence naming nomenclature, but could change depending how deep I decide to go in to various aspects.   I suppose in hindsight the best starting point which may to some extent cover everything - and maybe one of the the biggest hurdles in my mental hea...

"Ignorance is bliss" Never has a ubiquitous phrase been so appropriate.  I suppose I wanted to start with this phrase because in a sense feel it is a good starting point for all my posts.  Pre-diagnosis of my ADHD in October 2025 on a consultation with one of my GPs before my first appointment in this current spell with community mental health services, there was further realisation I might have had the condition.  Whilst I had been carrying out my own research into ADHD, one thing had been slightly overlooked by myself, but was reiterated during that consultation: research further into diet. In fairness I had come away thinking that this was a one-size fits all comment that would come from any health professional for most (for want of a better word) ailments requiring regular medications, but also how it might apply to a lifelong neurological disorder?  It doesn't take too much delving to see how much it does play importance, and further delving you can see how big ...

 A little about me and my reasoning for the blog: I'm Ian, currently a 51 year old man - if this around long enough, or even myself - originally from Bootle/Liverpool, and have been living in Ireland for almost 18 years.  My main core interests are sport of many different types, but would be a great lover of Liverpool F.C. (which will have some relevancy fairly soon), music, international cinema, history, science/medical/biomedical, nature, quizzes, alcohol (althought this might be on the wane now) and looking to widen my ICT knowledge and skills.  This is my third foray in to getting a blog constantly wrote and updated, and I am really hoping this one sticks around because I feel this could have some legs including hopefully for some public interaction and activation, because all our experiences are different somehow. I have had a long history of mental health problems, more specifically with depression and anxiety; I was diagnosed with mild dyslexia whilst at the Univer...